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.
An Easter People, Now More Than Ever
Alexandra DeSanctis
Our current crisis has revealed the significance of Lent and reminded us of how desperately we need Easter.
Articles
National Review Online / April 12, 2020
Why We Miss Baseball
Alexandra DeSanctis
At a time like this, we need the game that makes time stand still.
Articles
National Review Online / April 6, 2020
Reclaiming the ‘F Word’
Alexandra DeSanctis
A new book traces the history of American feminism and how it became entangled with the abortion-rights movement.
Articles
National Review Online / March 28, 2020
Farewell to the Pro-Life Democrats
Alexandra DeSanctis
Congressman Dan Lipinski has been ousted by a progressive challenger who attacked him for failing to support abortion rights.
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National Review Online / March 19, 2020
The Pro-Life Movement You’ve Never Heard Of
Alexandra DeSanctis
For decades, groups and individuals with vastly different cultural backgrounds, religious views, and political goals have set aside their conflicting preferences on other issues to campaign against abortion.
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National Review - April 6, 2020 issue / March 19, 2020
It’s Still Not Because She’s a Woman
Alexandra DeSanctis
Elizabeth Warren’s campaign failed not because of misogyny but because she’s a dishonest, incompetent politician.
Articles
National Review Online / March 9, 2020
Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Demonstrators Meet Outside the Supreme Court
Alexandra DeSanctis
The Court heard oral arguments this week in the abortion case June Medical Services v. Russo.
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National Review Online / March 4, 2020
How Democrats Get Away with Justifying Infanticide
Alexandra DeSanctis
Media inaccuracy and bias provide cover for lawmakers to oppose commonsense pro-life legislation.
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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.
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National Review Online / February 17, 2020