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Susan Rinkunas

Susan Rinkunas is a contributing editor for The New Republic. She is a contributing writer at Jezebel and her reporting has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, NBC News, Elle, Marie Claire, and others.

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January 31, 2025

Susan Rinkunas

The Right Is Frothing Over a New Medication Abortion Study

The birth control ingredient name-dropped in Project 2025 is suddenly getting new attention, thanks to research suggesting it could serve as a mifepristone substitute.

January 8, 2025

Susan Rinkunas

The GOP Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person

The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who isn’t a white man.

November 5, 2024

Susan Rinkunas

“Roevember” Won’t Save These Vulnerable Abortion Clinics

Funding cuts have critical all-trimester facilities on the brink of collapse—and the ripple effects to public health could be profound.

October 11, 2024

Susan Rinkunas

The Supreme Court May Use Dobbs to Take Down Trans Rights—and Beyond

The overturning of Roe was always going to affect more than just abortion, and we’re about to find out how bad it can get.

September 26, 2024

Susan Rinkunas

How Abortion Funds Are Coping With Their Election-Year Money Crunch

Overshadowed by ballot measures and the presidential race, mutual aid groups that pay for people’s abortions are teaming up with state advocates to better their bottom lines.

April 26, 2024

Susan Rinkunas

Sam Alito Thinks We’re All Stupid

The justice snapped that “nobody’s suggesting” pregnant women don’t deserve medical care in E.R.s. Actually, lots of people would put the fetus before her.

March 25, 2024

Susan Rinkunas

How Hobby Lobby Could Be Trump’s Reproductive Rights Wrecking Ball

The 2014 Supreme Court ruling is even more consequential as we stare down the possibility of Trump’s reelection—and a revival of the Comstock Act.

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