Alexandra DeSanctis

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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.

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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.

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The Real Science of Fetal Heartbeats

Alexandra DeSanctis

The New York Times publishes a ‘report’ attempting to debunk the science underlying pro-life heartbeat bills.

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National Review Online / February 15, 2022

The Real Reason They Want to Cancel Joe Rogan

Alexandra DeSanctis

Progressives hate free speech because they want to control what you think.

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National Review / February 1, 2022

The Truth about White Supremacists and Abortion

Alexandra DeSanctis

Pro-abortion writers recycle the false claim that the pro-life movement is entangled with racists.

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National Review / February 1, 2022

Exclusive: Virginia Attorney General Files to Remove State Support from Pro-Abortion Dobbs Brief

Alexandra DeSanctis

New Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares has filed a legal motion seeking to remove the state from a pro-abortion amicus curiae brief filed at the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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National Review Online / January 21, 2022

The Pro-Life Movement Is Profoundly American

Alexandra DeSanctis

The fight for life is the most recent effort to ensure that our country abides by the solemn words of the Declaration of Independence.

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National Review Online / January 19, 2022

Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing

Ryan T. Anderson

Announcing a new book equipping readers for the next chapter of the pro-life movement.

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National Review / January 18, 2022

Glenn Youngkin’s Excellent Inaugural Address

Alexandra DeSanctis

New Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s inaugural address hit all the right notes.

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National Review Online / January 15, 2022

New Jersey Is Set to ‘Codify’ Unlimited Abortion

Alexandra DeSanctis

A new state law declares abortion a ‘fundamental right’ and creates a pathway for requiring insurers to cover elective abortions.

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National Review Online / January 13, 2022

Poll: Americans Continue to Misunderstand Roe

Alexandra DeSanctis

Plenty of Americans both want abortion to be illegal and want to preserve the ruling that makes it impossible to prohibit abortion. This is possible only if some sizable number of Americans simply doesn’t understand what Roe and Casey meant for abortion policy.

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National Review Online / December 7, 2021

Refuting the ‘Forced Birth’ Smear

Alexandra DeSanctis

Abortion supporters have found their new favorite talking point.

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National Review Online / December 2, 2021

Pro-Abortion Attorney Fudges Facts on International Abortion

Alexandra DeSanctis

Nearly every European country that allows abortion at all limits it to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and a handful allow it until 15 weeks. They do not, as one of the attorneys arguing against Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks suggested, allow abortion after that point for “broad social reasons.”

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National Review Online / December 1, 2021

Roe in the Public Mind

Alexandra DeSanctis

Judging from public-opinion polling over the most recent decade, though American sentiment is fairly complex when it comes to whether and when abortion should be legal, a clear majority opposes the status quo in abortion law and policy.

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