Diane For Arkansas

01/12/2023

How do you respond when people say you are wrong and punish you for your actions?

You are what you do.

07/10/2022

The talk of the surgical unit yesterday was about how tough I was. My reply was that I didn't know I had a choice.
I was there for a procedure to repair and stabilize the biggest bone in my body that was fractured around the first of August.
I appreciate the excellent care I received at https://www.mercy.net/practice/mercy-orthopedic-hospital-fort-smith/.

I know how lucky I am to receive good care and how many people can fall through the massive cracks in our system.

We have so much work to do to make sure all Arkansans and especially Arkansas kids, have equitable means for healthcare.

We also need to adjust our community expectations about who deserves equal treatment.

Please help me support patients and our outstanding healthcare workers in assuring timely and quality healthcare.

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30/06/2022

While our planet's pollution continues to increase, the most prominent companies responsible receive a pass for their reckless behavior.
This world belongs to the future. Our children have been betrayed by the agendas of moneyed and political players.

28/06/2022

As a young wife and mother in my 20s, I had a partial miscarriage. The medical term for that is incomplete abortion.
I became ill and started running a fever, and by the time I got to the ER, my blood pressure was dropping. A doctor explained that despite my hopes, there was no chance of saving the pregnancy.
I needed a procedure to save my life.
If healthcare providers had been required under threat of law to prove my need for medical care by protecting themselves legally before performing their duties, I don't know what the outcome may have been.
Yet now, physicians and staff in our state must prove a threat to life or wait until situations become life-threatening to avoid felony charges and severe fines against themselves.
Arkansas already has some of the worst health outcomes for mothers in the nation.
Women and girls die from preventable delays and lack of healthcare.
Join me in saving the lives of women and girls of Arkansas. If we don't act, many will die.

23/06/2022

I'm a RN and paramedic on disability. I know how difficult it can be to find resources.
Arkansas's legislature should be represented by people whose interests are our communities and neighbors.

06/06/2022

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02/06/2022

The entire month of June we show that love is love and pride is pride.
If it's you or someone you care about, celebrate all the colors.
Inclusion is necessary.

31/05/2022

Are you terrified that the next attack may be against someone you love?

I am.

A bad guy got a gun. If we don't work together, it will happen again.

We can agree that we all love our kids and our families.

03/05/2022

If the SCOTUS decision is agreed upon, it would indicate a willingness to permit other protections to revert to state control.
Alito asserts that the written form of women's rights does not exist in the Constitution and illustrates a willingness to reverse these decisions back to individual states.
The effects of this opinion’s success would be profound and far-reaching. These protections include those regarding laws directed at the rights of more than women.
Discrimination against races, the elderly, the disabled, the poor, and people who are LGBTQ could also be overturned by this reasoning.
All people have the right to equal treatment under the law. I will do everything possible to support the human rights of all races, ethnicities, and protected classes.
Healthcare accessibility for all people, high-quality education, community support for the poor, and the nondiscrimination of groups and individuals must ultimately be the priority

12/04/2022

The actual test of a person's integrity is not found with the ideas we agree on, but with the responses we give and get when we disagree.
Our standards must be kindness, inclusivity, compassion, and care.

27/03/2022

"Until we change our attitude toward disability, nothing's going to change," he says. "We want to be included, not pitied. If someone is afraid to talk to a disabled person, you really need to do some soul searching and figure out why you're afraid of that. Because, ultimately, it's just a human."

He also points out that we (differently-abled) people are the "largest minority group on the planet and the only minority group you can join at any time."

In fact, you probably will join us at some point in your life.

Streaming comic superstar Josh Blue is breaking down common attitudes towards people with disabilities, one punch line at a time.

26/03/2022

Everyone deserves the opportunity to live without barriers.