People must register their desire for change

Have you registered to vote yet? Do you want the same good-ole-boy network to run our state? The Democrats have been feeding us the same old garbage for as many years that I have been voting, and still they get elected.

The Democrats have completely run our state into the ground. Yet they say, without them where would the state be?

If you haven't registered to vote yet, get out and do it while you still have time. Hawaii needs a change, and now is the time to do it.

Aloha and God bless you who can and will make a change in our government.

Curtis R. Rodrigues

Anderson's lottery proposal courageous

Without getting into a point-by-point rebuttal of your negative editorial reaction to Andy Anderson's proposed education lottery ("Don't gamble with public school funding," July 21), let's just cut to the core of the problem.

For at least the last 35 years (the length of my time in town), the state government has either ignored its political promises to a toothless teachers' union or given us empty slogans about "education second to none."

As a retired Department of Education teacher, I am heartened by a political candidate who has the courage to make a difficult decision in order to help solve what may be our most serious socioeconomic problem: how to provide equal opportunity via an improved public education system. Here's my vote for Andy Anderson.

Carl L. Hanson
Kapolei

Foreigners twist Pauahi's intent

Why did Pauahi stipulate in her will that her estate be used to educate Hawaiian children?

>> Because at that time, she foresaw that Hawaiian children would be left behind in schooling (my parents, both Hawaiian, did not go beyond 6th grade and myself 9th grade).

>> Because she foresaw that Hawaiian children would be doomed to fail intellectually because instruction in the Hawaiian language would become unlawful, as happened in 1893.

>> Because she foresaw that the Hawaiian children would grow to adulthood and become displaced in their own homeland in a culture unfamiliar to them.

>> Because she foresaw that foreigners would have control of the economy as they did when they overthrew the Hawaiian kingdom in 1893.

>> Because she foresaw that foreigners would make the laws as they began to do in 1893.

>> Because she knew that 100 years later her people would still be at risk, displaced and without control.

So to all of those white professors, attorneys and foreigners who are still, 100 years later, trying to displace Hawaiians by confusing, manipulating and twisting Pauahi's intent, may God have mercy on you.

Douglas Kamakawiwo'ole

"Morning-after" pill can cause damage

According to the Aug. 1 article "Women remain in the dark about the morning-after pill," the pill is an emergency contraceptive and was even referred to by someone as "a best kept secret."

What Planned Parenthood failed to mention but what was not overlooked by the Right to Life Advocates, is that should the pill fail to inhibit ovulation (and the egg not released) or if ovulation is not delayed as a result of the menstrual cycle being altered, the pill can result in irritation of the lining of the uterus. Then should the woman become pregnant, her body will reject the unborn child and the fetus will die before he or she can actually attach to the lining of the uterus.

This is the result of a chemical abortion. The "morning-after pill" is therefore an abortifacient, not an "abortification," as stated in the article.

The "morning-after" pill also is referred to as an "emergency contraceptive." What exactly is the emergency?

Esther C. Gefroh

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