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.
How Democrats Get Away with Justifying Infanticide
Alexandra DeSanctis
Media inaccuracy and bias provide cover for lawmakers to oppose commonsense pro-life legislation.
Articles
National Review Online / February 27, 2020
Notre Dame Plays Host to Transgender Ideology
Alexandra DeSanctis
A Catholic university should know better than to promote harmful pseudoscience dressed up as compassionate care.
Articles
National Review Online / February 20, 2020
Would the Equal Rights Amendment Enshrine Abortion Rights in the Constitution?
Alexandra DeSanctis
Nancy Pelosi claims the renewed effort to pass the amendment has nothing to do with abortion. Her allies say otherwise.
Articles
National Review Online / February 17, 2020
Welcoming Pro-Life Democrats Is Not Enough
Alexandra DeSanctis
The Democratic Party is quibbling over rhetoric and ignoring the real debate.
Articles
National Review Online / February 15, 2020
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Is Back
Alexandra DeSanctis
Congressional Republicans hope to pass legislation protecting infants who survive abortion procedures.
Articles
National Review Online / February 10, 2020
Joe Biden’s Last Campaign
Alexandra DeSanctis
As his party races left, the former veep struggles to catch up.
Articles
National Review - February 24, 2020 issue / February 6, 2020
Why Abortion-Rights Supporters Are Unhappy about Trump’s State of the Union
Alexandra DeSanctis
President Trump’s State of the Union address highlighted the story of a girl who was delivered prematurely, exposing the arbitrariness of the case for unlimited abortion.
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National Review Online / February 5, 2020