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.
In defense of pro-life incrementalism
Alexandra DeSanctis
Progressive outlet Mother Jones examined the supposed “splintering” of the pro-life movement in a recent article, prompted in part by an online spat between pro-life…
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Washington Examiner / March 13, 2025
America’s Biggest Employers Should Do More To Support Families
Alexandra DeSanctis, Nathanael Blake
We keep a communal pack-and-play at our office in the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. It makes…
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Newsweek / November 20, 2024
Reclaiming Personhood in the Public Debate over IVF
Alexandra DeSanctis
As we consider the future of our debate over IVF, we must go deeper than the political questions facing us and ask ourselves fundamental questions about how we view one another.
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Public Discourse / November 4, 2024
The GOP Ticket Goes Soft on Chemical Abortion
Alexandra DeSanctis
Pro-life leaders refuse to hold the line as Trump and Vance indicate support for the majority of abortions.
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National Review Online / August 7, 2024
Women Deserve to Know They Can Reverse In-Progress Chemical Abortions
Alexandra DeSanctis
Abortion pill reversal is a potent reminder to those who profit from abortion that, if given the option, many pregnant mothers want assistance that will help them choose life.
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Public Discourse / June 24, 2024
Two Years After Dobbs
Alexandra DeSanctis, Patrick T. Brown
In June 2022, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, correctly finding that…
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PDF / June 20, 2024
Real Women’s Health Care Doesn’t Require Killing
Alexandra DeSanctis
Senate Democrats host a public hearing designed to mislead the public about the reality of health care after Dobbs.
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Countercultured / June 4, 2024
Some Thoughts for 2024 Graduates
Alexandra DeSanctis
What meaning or purpose will direct the course of your life?
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Countercultured / May 29, 2024
The Single Christian
Alexandra DeSanctis
A plague of loneliness is to be found in more than just the broader, secular culture.
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Religion & Liberty Online / May 17, 2024