Alexandra DeSanctis
Fellow
EPPC Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis writes on culture and family issues, with a particular focus on abortion policy and pro-life advocacy, as a member of the Life and Family Initiative.
EPPC Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis writes on culture and family issues, with a particular focus on abortion policy and pro-life advocacy, as a member of the Life and Family Initiative.
DeSanctis has been a writer at National Review since 2016, where she covers politics, elections, culture, and abortion policy. She first joined NR as a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism with the National Review Institute and since 2018 has been a staff writer. She has been a regular commentator on NR’s podcast “The Editors.”
Her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications. She speaks for high-school and college audiences across the country about abortion and the pro-life movement.
DeSanctis is co-author, with Ryan T. Anderson, of the 2022 book Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing.
The ‘Fetal-Heartbeat Debunking’ Squad
Alexandra DeSanctis
The elaborate song and dance from abortion supporters entirely misses the point.
Articles
National Review Online / September 29, 2022
Congress Has a Role to Play in Limiting Abortion
Alexandra DeSanctis
A response to conservative complaints about Lindsey Graham’s proposed federal abortion law.
Articles
National Review / September 22, 2022
On the Pro-Life Senate Bill and ‘Late Term’ Abortion
Alexandra DeSanctis
What matters, in the end, is what happens in an abortion procedure, and whether we believe that act should be legally permissible.
Articles
National Review Online / September 13, 2022
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.
Articles
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,…
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National Review / June 21, 2022
