Awful roads
Mayor Mitch Roth: I called your office months ago and never got a response.
Last year, I called (on and off) for 1 1/2 years to the Highways Division about the potholes on both ends of the Waiaka bridge in Waimea, and a few times it was patched, but not often enough.
It’s a very dangerous situation, and I — and our town — think it should be taken more seriously.
We all pay the gas taxes, but we seem not to benefit from them. Our town is very small, and the roads are awful!
I’d like to know why we seem to be not on the Big Island map.
We deserve to have decent roads and the potholes filled as much as needed.
Holly Bell
Waimea
Hardly a ‘beacon’
Did I really read that right? Sen. San Buenaventura said, “Hawaii will be a beacon” to the women everywhere because Hawaii is open to the business of abortion-on-demand.
A beacon is to be a thing of light, but the senator and all her supporters are making Hawaii a place of darkness and death.
This law that Gov. Josh Green signed includes many horrendous changes to even the former loose Hawaii abortion law. From now on, I am going to call Gov. Green Doctor Death.
Hawaii law allows abortion of babies, killing of babies, even until the baby is able to live outside the womb, which in these days of modern medicine is as young as five to 6 months old. But some people are interpreting the law to mean abortion is okay until the baby is born through natural labor, which could mean a baby is killed that might even be nine months in the womb!
This is the killing of babies that definitely would survive, but are killed for convenience and for money for the abortion industry.
The new law gives abortion access to minor women, those women under the age of 18, without the requirement of parental consent. The March 23 news article writes: “Supporters (the abortion industry) say this is important for victims of incest and violence and those whose parents may seek to harm their child for having an abortion.”
I contend that minors with that type of monstrous parents are very rare. The basic parental rights of parents who have a good relationship with their daughters are being trampled upon. This is a major medical procedure for a young person, and parents should be there for them. It is worse that a teen has a secret abortion and then the parents wonder why their teen has psychological distress afterwards.
Hopefully, parents will encourage the teen to save the baby and see it adopted instead of murdered for their convenience. Both the teen and parents will have saved a precious human life and be comforted by that fact.
This new law will also make abortions less safe. No longer will the death procedure be done in a hospital or surgical clinic, but can even be done even at a patient’s home! On top of that, no longer will the procedure be required to be performed by doctors or advanced practice registered nurses, but can now be done by a physician assistant, a much less experienced professional.
The law seems to be inviting abortion tourism because the law also was written to protect any out-of-state woman when she comes to Hawaii for an abortion. Already, local doctors are saying that they have seen more out-of-state women requesting abortions since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Now, Hawaii is becoming known for death, not aloha and life. As abortion becomes ever more available, more lives will be destroyed and minds wrecked. Blood is on the hands of the governor and all the people who supported and are supporting this horrible law.
God have mercy on their souls.
Denise Yamamoto
Keaau