Aloha is letting other drivers in
Drivers in Kona are quite very courteous in allowing other cars to get in line in front of them. What goes around comes around, so I also allow other cars to get in line in front of me.
It’s the aloha spirit at work and it makes everyone feel good.
Colleen Miyose-Wallis
Kailua-Kona
Crisis pregnancy centers shouldn’t promote abortion
Bills HB663 and SB501, are going through the legislature right now and, if passed, would force crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) across our state to provide information regarding an abortion option.
These bills are one-sided because they do not require abortion clinics to let clients know that there are CPCs available. CPCs, who struggle to stay afloat, literally rescue women and babies from the claws of death and despair. These centers are typically volunteer-run, donation-based, life-embracing charities that will now have to promote state-assisted abortion or pay bundles out of their shallow budgets if they don’t comply.
What’s more, imposing abortion option requirements such as these would threaten to force those with deeply held convictions against promoting abortion to violate their conscience, going against their religious freedoms guaranteed by our U. S. Constitution.
Please help us make sure that doesn’t happen. Contact your state legislators and ask them to oppose the above mentioned bills. For the pro-abortion crowds who profess a “war on women” is taking place, we don’t disagree — but for a different reason. In fact, we submit that the pro-abortion lobby is part of the problem causing this war on women. Trying to take away precious resources and care from a woman in distress who is facing an unplanned pregnancy is the very definition of harm. Abortion not only ends the life of the unborn child, but also may hold serious and devastating physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological consequences for the mother.
If the pro-abortion crowd is truly pro-choice, why not support pregnancy care centers that give women other options?
Barbara J. Ferraro
State director, Concerned Women for America of Hawaii