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.
Confirming New Justices Is Not ‘Packing the Court’
Alexandra DeSanctis
Democrats are understandably angry that they don’t have the votes to prevent Barrett from being confirmed to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat on the Court. They must not be allowed to get away with brazenly redefining terms and refusing to say whether they’ll upend a century and a half of tradition by expanding the size of the Supreme Court.
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National Review Online / October 12, 2020
Yes, Democratic Senators Have Questioned Judicial Nominees About Their Faith
Alexandra DeSanctis
Amy Coney Barrett is not the only judge to have faced improper scrutiny from Democrats over her religious beliefs.
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National Review Online / October 8, 2020
American Families Want More School Choice
Alexandra DeSanctis
A new survey of likely voters in five key swing states found that respondents, especially nonwhite Americans, tend to favor expanded school-choice options.
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National Review Online / October 1, 2020
Feminists Should Be Celebrating Amy Coney Barrett
Alexandra DeSanctis
One would be hard-pressed to find a woman who has navigated the difficult trenches of career success and motherhood as ably as Amy Coney Barrett.
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National Review Online / September 26, 2020
Democrats’ Anti-Catholic Bigotry Is All About Abortion
Alexandra DeSanctis
Amy Coney Barrett is not the only potential judge who’s had her faith maligned by the Left in the name of protecting legal abortion.
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National Review Online / September 23, 2020
Critics of Cuties Aren’t Conspiracy Theorists
Alexandra DeSanctis
Netflix’s defenders are conflating legitimate criticism with QAnon and ignoring the movie’s overt sexualization of young girls.
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National Review Online / September 15, 2020
What Happens If Neither Trump nor Biden Wins the Electoral College?
Alexandra DeSanctis
In the event that neither President Donald Trump nor Joe Biden wins an absolute majority of votes in the Electoral College this November, the race will be handled with a constitutional procedure called a contingent election, which will send the contest to the House of Representatives for a final decision.
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National Review Online / September 9, 2020
Sr. Deirdre Byrne’s Gift of Witness
Alexandra DeSanctis
It’s not very often in politics that we get to hear from someone as heroic as Sister Deirdre Byrne, a religious sister, a missionary, a medical doctor, and a military veteran, who addressed the nation during the Republican National Convention.
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Catholic Herald (UK) / September 6, 2020
Why the Democratic Convention Ignored Abortion
Alexandra DeSanctis
Biden–Harris is the most pro-abortion ticket in history — and the Democratic Party is out of step with its own voters.
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National Review Online / August 25, 2020
Pro-Life Democrats Ask the DNC to Moderate on Abortion
Alexandra DeSanctis
Given Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’s radically pro-abortion views, Democrats are unlikely to change the party platform.
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National Review Online / August 18, 2020
Rewriting History on Harris vs. Biden
Alexandra DeSanctis
Joe Biden’s new running mate has suggested he supported segregation and was guilty of inappropriately touching women.
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National Review Online / August 13, 2020
D.C. Police Arrest Pro-Life Activists for Writing on Public Sidewalk
Alexandra DeSanctis
Someone must be held accountable for the apparent mistreatment two pro-life demonstrators faced — especially after city officials spent months allowing rioters to get away with defacing and destroying private property throughout D.C. in the name of social justice.
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National Review Online / August 3, 2020