How Medicare fails, people with reproductive age with disabilities

Can you believe it is already August 4? These are officially the lazy, dog days of the summer, but here Rewire News Group We are still working hard to inform you, rags and sometimes even to delete. Today’s main story is from the profitable variety: it is a new study that shows that more than 1 million women with disabilities cannot get affordable birth control.

Contraception has become an essential way to prevent pregnancy now that abortion is prohibited or is seriously limited in 19 American states. And according to the law, most health insurance plans are contraception of the daily hormonal pill to long-term intra-uterine devices (spirals), to permanent sterilization-of-clean to no costs.

There is one striking exception: Medicare.

Medicare, best known as the federal health insurance program for adults aged 65-plus, also covers around 1.3 million reproductive-aged women with disabilities. But it will not pay to get permanent contraception such as tubal ligation (price tag: up to $ 6,000), even if they have a state of health that can make pregnancy dangerous. And Medicare only partially includes other types of contraception, which means that an IUD can cost more than $ 1,800.

The costs are already “a great deterrent to get contraception,” writes Study author Meghan Bellerose Rewire News Group. And since the Trump government has cut federal funds for Medicare and Medicaid in July, the contraceptive gap for women with disabilities will probably get worse. Bellerose collaborated with invalidity expert Robyn Powell to explain her study results RNG Readers. If you find their story as aggravating and important as I, send it to a friend – and encourage them to sign up Reciprocate‘s newsletters.

Immigration

• Venezuelan men who have been deported from the US to El Salvador in recent months reported Being sexually abused, food denied and being beaten daily in the infamous Cecot prison of El Salvador. “I thought I would die there,” someone said. Instead, about 250 Venezuelan deportees were flown to Venezuela on July 25; In exchange, Venezuela freed ten American prisoners. About 85,000 Salvadorans remained trapped in El Salvador, Local human rights groups say.
• Lawyers claim The fact that people were trapped in the immigration detention center of Florida in the Everglades are held without charges and meetings with lawyers are refused. Their bond hearings, when a judge can order his release if he pays compensation, are also canceled, says the complaint. Almost a dozen people who have been held in the facility have been in hunger strike for almost two weeks to protest against a lack of food, water mass and abuse by guards, Gulf Coast News Fort MeyerS reported.

Pro-democracy wins

• A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked a “large, beautiful account” provision that the Medicaid financing of Planned Parenthood Clinics has withdrawn.
• The Trump administration cannot abruptly terminate the deportation protection for migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, a Federal court ruled on July 31.
• Twenty-one states and Washington, DC, continue the Ministry of Agriculture due to privacy problems after requesting the personal information from people who request the additional food utility, including their names, SOFI numbers, addresses and date of birth, NPR reported on July 28.
• Two New York Democratic members of the congress, reps. Adriano Espaillat and then Goldman, introduced a bill on July 26 That would require immigration and customs enforcement and the Ministry of Interior Security Agents to identify themselves when arresting people. The house account would also prevent them from using homemade, non-military masks at work.
• The Ministry of Education releases $ 5 billion to frozen educational fairs to American states, According to the Associated Press. This means that all $ 6 billion-plus in education financing that was withheld by the Department on 1 July, now released after a lawsuit with nearly two dozen states.

Antidemocratic actions

• More than 50 Democratic legislators in Texas fled the state this week To prevent a vote on a heavily Gerrymandered, Trump-requested congress district card for Texas that would favor the Republicans in the Mid-Terms of 2026, the Texas Tribune reported. Their absence means that there is no quorum in the lower room, so it cannot consider and approve legislation, according to its own rules. Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas threatened the Democrats of the State House with removal if they do not return, According to the Texas Tribune.
• “The United States seem to slide deeper into the rippling sands of authoritarianism,” July 30 press release from the International Democracy Watchdog Civicus Leest. “Peaceful protests are confronted with military force, critics are treated as criminals, journalists are the target and support for civil society and international cooperation has been cut.” The US is classified as “narrowed” on the map of Civicus, the second highest assessment, Since 2023. The category means that people have the right to exercise civil liberties, but these rights are occasionally violated.
• The Trump administration has frozen $ 108 million for Duke University’s medical school and health care system, referring to “Systemic Racial Discrimination”, According to the New York Times.
• The Ministry of Justice claimed that Washington, DC district judge James Boasberg has supervised various controversial immigration and deportation industry-our correct remarks that amounted to judicial misconduct in a submitted complaint on July 28, on July 28, on July 28, on July 28, on July 28, on July 28, on July 28, on July 28, on July 28, on July 28, on July 28, NBC News reported. The Staff Chef of Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chad Mizelle, asked that the case of the Alien Enemies ACT that has been allocated to Boasberg are re -awarded, and that Boasberg is confronted with disciplinary measures if he has deliberately committed the deliberate misconduct.

Reproductive rights

• Planned Parenthood And Maine Family Planning Both have sued the Trump administration due to its intended financing reductions for non -profit family planning clinics that offer abortion care and receive more than $ 800,000 in annual Medicaid fees. Financing to Planned Parenthood was temporarily On July 28, 2025 after a judge had blocked the law to take effect. A day later, 22 StatesPennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and the District of Columbia submitted a third federal lawsuit Offering the provision of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that is responsible for the cutbacks and claims that it is unconstitutional.

LGBTQ+ Rights

• The American Olympic and Paralympic Committee has quietly updated its large rules to prevent transgender women from participating in women’s sports. The new restrictions break with the International Olympic Committee, so that transvrouws can compete after they have passed.
• Legal groups of democracy Vooruit and the National Women’s Law Center suggested the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on July 29, claiming that the Agency refuses to enforce the protection of the workplace for transgender workers. The Associated Press reported that the desk has fallen at least six cases claim that gender discrimination Against transgender workers and the progress stopped on some new ones. The claimants also claim that the EEOC has stopped paying to national and local civil rights agencies to help them investigate discrimination claims of gender identity.

Health and Science

• The Food and Drug Administration’s new vaccine chef has resigned after less than three months at work, According to the New York Times. The departure of oncologist and COVID-195 VACCCRICICS VINAY PRASAD came after printing by right-wing activist Laura Loomer-Die Prasad criticized for denying the approval of drugs for rare diseases and by former Pennsylvania Santorum in which a medicine has had a medicine has had.
• The Environmental Protection Agency lays the foundation to stop regulating greenhouse gas emissions, According to the New York Times. On July 29, the agency announced its intention to withdraw a fundamental scientific decision from 2009, the ‘threat’, which established that greenhouse gases heated the planet and, as a result, caused public health damage. The finding enabled the desk to close the amount of air pollutants and cars.
• On July 29, 2025, the Susan Monarez Senate confirmed as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, According to NPR. Monarrez, who promotes in immunology and microbiology, has previously helped the agency in an acting capacity. A colleague described Monarez to NPR as a “hard -working civil servant” and said, “We really need her in this role.”

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