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.
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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National Review - November 29, 2021 issue / November 18, 2021
Kamala Harris, Victim of Identity Politics
Alexandra DeSanctis
In a backwards way, Kamala Harris finds herself holding a position in which she’s ill-equipped to succeed precisely because of identity politics, which motivated Biden to pick a running mate so ill-suited to the job.
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National Review Online / November 18, 2021
New National Survey Finds that Porn Use Decreases Relationship Satisfaction
Alexandra DeSanctis
Researchers have conducted the first major study on pornography that collected responses from matched partners.
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National Review Online / November 9, 2021
Exclusive: Pro-Life Doctors Launch Campaign Promoting ‘Abortion-Pill Reversal’
Alexandra DeSanctis
A pro-life coalition is encouraging doctors to learn about a safe, effective method for reversing unwanted chemical abortions.
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National Review Online / November 8, 2021
Progressives Cry ‘Racism’ to Excuse Democratic Losses in Virginia
Alexandra DeSanctis
Republican victories in Virginia were not the result of ‘white supremacy.’
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National Review Online / November 4, 2021
Notre Dame Students Go to War over ‘Woke’ Catholicism
Alexandra DeSanctis
The University of Notre Dame has failed to articulate the truth of Catholic Church teaching on human sexuality and gender identity.
Articles
National Review Online / November 1, 2021
Home Invasion
Alexandra DeSanctis
When a ferociously determined squirrel takes residence in the attic, a Virginia couple must get creative in order to regain peace and quiet.
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National Review - November 1, 2021 issue / October 28, 2021
Twelve States Sue Biden over Title X Abortion Funding
Alexandra DeSanctis
A coalition of a dozen state attorneys general have sued the Biden administration over a new policy slated to take effect next month, which will allow abortion providers to obtain federal funding under the Title X family-planning program.
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National Review Online / October 27, 2021
McAuliffe Distances Himself from Biden as Virginia Polls Tighten
Alexandra DeSanctis
Virginia’s gubernatorial election, coming as it does in the year immediately following a presidential race, tends to flip in the opposite direction of whichever party is in the White House. With less than a month to go, the race between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin is looking closer than ever.
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National Review Online / October 6, 2021
House Democrats Pass Extreme Abortion Bill
Alexandra DeSanctis
Democrats have been threatening for years now to “codify Roe v. Wade,” by which they appear to have meant enacting the Women’s Health Protection Act, one of the most pro-abortion pieces of legislation Congress has ever considered.
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National Review Online / September 24, 2021
Woke Corporations Defend ‘People’s’ Right to Abortion
Alexandra DeSanctis
Several dozen U.S. companies have published a statement proclaiming their support for “reproductive healthcare” and suggesting that the Texas Heartbeat Act “bans equality” in the state.
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National Review Online / September 23, 2021