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.
The “Women’s Rights” Movement Goes Woke
Alexandra DeSanctis
Abortion-rights advocates have relinquished the word ‘woman’ out of deference to gender ideologues.
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National Review Online / September 9, 2021
States, Physicians Sue to Stop Biden Administration’s ‘Sex Discrimination’ Policies
Alexandra DeSanctis
The Biden administration is facing two new lawsuits challenging its reinterpretation of federal antidiscrimination statutes to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.”
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National Review Online / September 3, 2021
The Strange Pseudoscience of the Abortion-Rights Movement
Alexandra DeSanctis
The enactment of the Texas Heartbeat Act has exposed the pseudoscience undergirding the worldview of abortion-rights supporters.
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National Review Online / September 3, 2021
The Texas Heartbeat Bill Is a Preview of a Post-Roe World
Alexandra DeSanctis
Abortion-rights advocates are outraged at this tiny preview of a United States where courts are no longer de facto defenders of unlimited abortion.
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National Review Online / September 1, 2021
The History of the Case That Could Topple Roe
Alexandra DeSanctis
The pro-life movement has been urging the Court to remake its abortion jurisprudence, root and branch, for decades. And in Dobbs, Mississippi has offered the justices a prime opportunity to do just that.
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National Review Online / August 25, 2021
Planned Parenthood Jumps into the Hormone-Therapy Game
Alexandra DeSanctis
Planned Parenthood has quietly begun expanding into a new arena: hormone therapy for individuals with gender dysphoria, a service the group calls “gender affirming care.”
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National Review Online / August 24, 2021
Loudoun County School Board Enacts Wide-Ranging ‘Gender Identity’ Policy
Alexandra DeSanctis
Ignoring the reasonable opposition of parents and teachers, and disregarding the costs especially to young women enrolled in their public schools, the Loudoun County school board has staked its claim with the gender ideologues.
Articles
National Review Online / August 18, 2021
The Supreme Court Must End Coercive Abortion Mandates
Alexandra DeSanctis
Religious groups are asking the Court for relief from a New York mandate requiring employers to cover elective abortion regardless of their beliefs.
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National Review Online / August 16, 2021
Today’s Democrats Are Anti-Choice
Alexandra DeSanctis
By jettisoning the Hyde amendment, the Democratic Party has made abortion absolutism its calling card.
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National Review Online / August 13, 2021
Cuomo’s Halfhearted Farewell Apology
Alexandra DeSanctis
Even in his resignation speech, Andrew Cuomo continued to dig in his heels and insist that he’s leaving office because it’s the best thing for the state government — not because he actually did anything wrong or anything worth resigning over.
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National Review Online / August 10, 2021
The Justice Department Declines to Defend Conscience Rights
Alexandra DeSanctis
The Department of Justice has declined to pursue a suit that the government initially filed last year after a former nurse alleged that she had been forced to participate in an abortion procedure despite her objections.
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National Review Online / August 5, 2021
NYT Symposium on New Constitutional Amendments: The Word ‘Person’ Shall Apply to All Human Life—Born…
Alexandra DeSanctis
We must affirm the truth of Thomas Jefferson’s words once again, this time by ending the dehumanizing injustice of abortion and securing the right to life of unborn human beings.
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The New York Times / August 4, 2021