Alexandra DeSanctis
Visiting Fellow
EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis writes on abortion policy and the pro-life movement, as well as on other key topics at the intersection of politics, culture, and religion.
EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis writes on abortion policy and the pro-life movement, as well as on other key topics at the intersection of politics, culture, and religion.
Ms. DeSanctis is a staff writer at National Review and publishes regular reporting and commentary for both the National Review print magazine and National Review Online. She hosts the National Review podcast “For Life” and speaks on college campuses and for conservative events across the country. Prior to becoming a staff writer, Alexandra spent two years as a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism with the National Review Institute. She graduated in 2016 from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s degree in political science and minors in constitutional studies and theology. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Washington Examiner, America magazine, and the Human Life Review.
Book Review: Gender Ideology’s Origin Story
Alexandra DeSanctis
Favale is able to expose each logical and anthropological flaw with great precision.
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National Review / August 2, 2022
How Every State Pro-Life Law Handles Ectopic Pregnancy and Miscarriage
Alexandra DeSanctis
Neither miscarriage care nor treatment for ectopic pregnancy has anything to do with an elective abortion procedure, which intentionally kills an unborn child.
Articles
National Review / July 26, 2022
Why the Dictionary Is Trying to Redefine ‘Woman’
Alexandra DeSanctis
Through sheer intimidation, and by controlling the right institutions, Leftists have managed to begin overhauling the very way we speak, enforcing that overhaul by punishing and silencing nonconformists.
Articles
National Review Online / July 21, 2022
How the Eugenics Movement Made Race-Based Abortions Normal
Ryan T. Anderson
Planned Parenthood condemns sex-, race-, and disability-based discrimination in every other context, except when it occurs in the womb.
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American Greatness / June 28, 2022
Why the Arguments about “Bodily Autonomy” and “Forced Birth” Fail to Justify Abortion
Ryan T. Anderson
Examining the bodily autonomy argument for abortion highlights a crucial pro-life point: abortion is wrong not only because strangers shouldn’t kill each other but also and especially because parents have special obligations to their children, and it isn’t governmental overreach to require parents to fulfill those obligations.
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Public Discourse / June 23, 2022
Making Abortion Illegal and Unthinkable
Ryan T. Anderson
It will require much more than the courts.
Articles
National Review / June 23, 2022
Poll Finds Most Americans Believe Unborn Children Have Rights
Alexandra DeSanctis
Americans United for Life (AUL) has partnered with YouGov to survey 1,000 Americans on their opinions about abortion, fetal personhood,…
Articles
National Review / June 21, 2022
We Must Acknowledge That Abortion Harms Women
Ryan T. Anderson
It is easier to defend abortion if you pretend that women who choose abortion are always happy with their decision.
Articles
National Review / June 21, 2022
Abortion Supporters, End the Violence
Alexandra DeSanctis
Stop compounding the violence of abortion itself with attacks and threats.
Articles
National Review Online / June 9, 2022
The Vandalism Goes On
Alexandra DeSanctis
Last week, someone graffitied a pregnancy-resource center outside Seattle and smashed in several of its windows for good measure. Security…
Articles
National Review / June 7, 2022
