Brenna Bird is hurting not helping

Brenna Bird is a poor attorney general for the state of Iowa. She is opaque in her approach to her duties to Iowans and fails to be accountable for her actions. She has had an excellent mentor for her behavior in Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Bird has claimed she needed to stop providing emergency contraception for sexual assault victims in order to review that process and use of taxpayer monies.Help was provided without challenge until she got into office. Why? Why stop when the presumption is providing these services and products at no cost to victims in a timely manner is important to the victims and their future well-being? The conclusion would be that Bird does not see them as important aid to victims.

Those services should have been continued during her review. There was nothing but politics and lack of support for victims in her stopping those services and payments during her review, followed by foot dragging to this point. Her review is without merit, not genuine in its stated purpose and has been a cloaked and opaque process. Brenna Bird is not protecting victims or the State. She is only hurting victims more than they already are hurt.

Phillip Thien

Des Moines