Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 6

A-6 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Thursday, June 7, 1984 Anti-Abortion Film Endorsed for Showing to Isle Students ALTHOUGH SEVERAL board members were absent last night and several did not watch the film, at least one, Randal Yoshida, found it objectionable. Yoshida, a Thompson supporter, said, "1 can see why the DOE rejected it to be shown to 16-year-olds." "It's a heavy film. It's very biased. To me, this film was a little bit too heavy for adults," Yoshida said. Yoshida said he supports showing films to show both sides of any issue, but this one was "a little too graphic." Darrow Aiona, also a Thompson supporter, said screening films is up to the administration of the department and he thinks board members should be "more concerned about kids who don't graduate." "Personally I'm against abortion but it's not for me to tell other people what to da or not to do," Aiona said.

Board member June Leong, who voted against Thompson, said "selecting appropriate instructional materials is an administrative responsibility" and the department has a committee of teachers who review materials and make recommendations. Board member Meyer Ueoka, who voted against Thompson, said the "film was quite graphic" and he thinks it shouldn't be shown in elementary schools. "In high schools, maybe (but), it should be by choice, not required," Ueoka said. Margaret Apo, a Thompson supporter, said she saw the film "as having some value as it does show a live fetus being killed, dragged out of the mother." "I look at it as a deterrent to the attitude of our young girls that it's all right to have sexual life and then just go through an abortion," Apo said. ACCORDING TO A Department of Education memo, a review panel of health and educational specialists found the film unsuitable to both the intellectual and emotional maturity of secondary school students.

"All members of the review panel found factual inaccuracies and distortions," that memo said. Most of those who supported the film last night said students aren't given enough information about sexual activity and what happens during an abortion. "I believe the young people of our state are being given only half of the story," said the Rev. Peter W. Anderson, a Presbyterian minister.

"I believe" senior high school students should be given the facts." Also asking the board to allow the use of the film was a young mother, who said she had had an abortion at age 16, and "tried to commit suicide several times after that." "A girl needs to know" what's involved in having an abortion, she said. DR. BILL FONG, an obstetrician and gynecologist, said the film does present an accurate picture of what takes place during an abortion and "does take an anti-abortion stance." "1 applaud production of the film and recommend the board allow it for use in the schools," Fong said. Barbara M. Kaelberer, a counselor with the Windward Pregnancy Problem Center, called the film "very honest, very well documented." "I think it's slightly slanted.

Bravo. It's about time the other side is presented," she said. Judith Driver, a clinical psychologist, said "sexual education of young women of child-bearing age should keep up with modern times." Driver was one of several speakers who called the film "tastefully" done. By Hildegaard Verploegen Siar-liulleun Writer Only one of about 30 people who watched an anti-abortion film before the start of last night's meeting of the state Board of Education opposed use of the film in Hawaii public schools. About 15 people spoke in favor of the film, with most asking the school board to place it on the approved list of materials teachers may use in classes.

The lone dissenter, William E. Woods, executive director of the Sexual Identity Center, said the film was biased, unhealthy and anti-American. Woods commended the administration of fired Superintendent Donnis Thompson "for saying it was not an acceptable film for showing in the DOE." THE FILM WAS not on the agenda on the school board meeting, but members of the audience were allowed to speak about it during the regular meeting after other business items were completed. Board member Janie Nakamat-su arranged to have the film shown because it was mentioned in a letter from Thompson's attorney, Paul Alston, to Deputy Attorney General Russell Suzuki. Alston's letter said Thompson had no direct evidence that her firing on Feb.

15 "was motivated by racial, sexual or religious bias." The letter then outlined Naka-matsu's request to Thompson to allow the anti-abortion film to be used in the schools. It said the DOE's curriculum office found the film unsuitable and Thompson refused to override their recommendation. Alston's letter also said Naka-matsu then "expressed her displeasure and indicated she would no longer support Dr. Thompson as superintendent." Nakamatsu was one of several school board candidates who were endorsed in the 1980 campaign by the Christian Coalition, a conservative group supporting traditional family values. NAKAMATSU SAID those accusations are "ridiculous" and that she voted to fire Thompson "because her overall performance was inadequate." School board Chairman Noboru Vonamine said he allowed Nakamatsu to show the film because he saw it as her personal response to Alston's letter to the deputy attorney general.

"When a person's integrity and judgment are questioned, I think she (Nakamatsu) has a right to express her views," Yonamine said. Yonamine did not watch the film. He said it wasn't on the agenda but he did refer it to Acting Superintendent Francis Ha-tanaka "for a decision at a later date." The film, called "A Matter of Choice," is an edited version of an hour-long film titled, "Assignment Life," produced by a Mainland company. Nakamatsu said she had wanted the film to be available to teachers to use, but had not suggested that teachers be required to use it or that students be required to watch it. Abortion Show Suit MILWAUKEE (AP)" A teen-ager who says he was so shocked by an anti-abortion slide show that he fell out of a chair and injured himself is suing his high school and the organization that produced the show.

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