Call Your Senator!!!

Lovelies,

    I'm spreading the word about this as far as I can. Sharing it in as many places as I can. And I will be calling my senator. Can you believe this? I just had a horrible thought. If states are no longer required to provide care for the Disabled, who will?! Are we talking Federally funded institutions? Privatized?! What? It is beyond comprehension. And I've seen the shadows of this mentality within my own community. Mostly among the older generation who belong to a time when the Disabled had no option but to stay indoors, either kept in an attic room of their family home, or relegated to a State hospital, chained to a bed. Better not seen and not heard, right? How did we get all the way back to this almost antebellum bs in the United States?

Here's a little background on the court ruling referenced in the reel below: "The “Olmstead Act” (AKA the Olmstead Decision) refers to the Olmstead v. L.C. Supreme Court decision, which mandates that people with disabilities receive services in the most integrated setting possible, unless community placement is inappropriate, opposed by the individual, or unreasonably accommodated."

Like the good doctor says, the Olmstead Decision (the Olmstead Act) has been upheld for years and years, and the bill to override it is not a a law yet. However, if we ignore the Democratic process and the power we all have as Americans to stand up and declare this new action incorrigible, it could become a law. Then what? The children you know with disabilities, the adults being cared for by their families, and anybody with so much a developmental delay could be in danger. There is no telling where the line could be drawn. If it is at all. 


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