Feminist News Digest | Week of August 31-September 4

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The American Academy of Pediatrics reported that hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19 are increasing more rapidly among children than the general public.
Abortion rights organizations in Tennessee filed a lawsuit this week against the state for its new law that requires medication abortion patients to be informed that their abortion can be "reversed", despite no medical evidence concluding that the "reversal" medication is effective or safe.
A new report released on Wednesday showed incarcerated people are twice as likely to die from coronavirus in prison than those on the outside.
And finally, on Wednesday evening, DC police fatally shot a young Black person-- 18-year-old Deon Kay.
These stories are are linked below, and other important feminist news can be found here [[link removed]] .


HEALTH | COVID-19 | YOUTH
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Rising Rapidly Among Children [[link removed]]
Amid school re-openings and 6 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S., new data from the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that instances of COVID-19 related hospitalizations and deaths among children and teens are increasing at a more rapid pace than the general public.


ABORTION | REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | ADVOCACY
Abortion Rights Organizations File Lawsuit Against Tennesee Anti-Abortion Law [[link removed]]
Reproductive rights groups challenged a new Tennessee law requiring abortion providers to inform medication abortion patients that their abortion pill can be “reversed”, despite no conclusive medical evidence that an “abortion reversal” pill is effective or even safe.


PRISON | COVID-19 | HEALTH
New Report Finds Prison Inmates Twice As Likely To Die from COVID-19 [[link removed]]
According to a new report released on Wednesday, incarcerated people are twice as likely to die from coronavirus in prison than those on the outside.
Kevin T. Schnepel, assistant professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, found that the mortality rate in state and federal prisons is twice as high as in the general population. The infection rate is even more drastic, with close to 7,000 cases per 100,000 incarcerated people, more than four times the rate of cases per 100,000 people in the general public.



ABORTION| ON THE HILL | POLITICS
D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department shot and killed 18-year-old Deon Kay [[link removed]]
On Wednesday, September 2, Metropolitan Police Department Officer Alexander Alvarez shot and killed 18-year old Deon Kay, who is Black, in Southeast DC.
The police department released body camera video recording showing the aftermath of the shooting. The footage shows an officer exiting his police car and approaching a parked car in the parking lot of an apartment building. Officer Alvarez encountered Kay, who was holding a gun. Kay threw the gun past Alvarez, and Alvarez shot Kay in the chest, killing him.



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