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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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

Exclusive: Republicans Aim to Block Funding for Schools That Provide Abortion Pills

Alexandra DeSanctis

Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate will introduce legislation today to prohibit colleges and universities from receiving federal funding if they provide chemical-abortion drugs to students.

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National Review / July 21, 2021

The Original Feminist Plan for Women’s Equality: Marriage, Family, and Sexual Integrity

Alexandra DeSanctis

In her new book, Erika Bachiochi presents a compelling vision of female equality and happiness that embraces a woman’s capacity for childbearing and encourages sexual virtue and strong marriages as an antidote to difficulties that abortion can never hope to solve.

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Public Discourse / July 14, 2021

The Supreme Court Must Settle the Selective-Abortion Question

Alexandra DeSanctis

Appellate courts are split on whether states may prohibit abortions chosen after a prenatal Down-syndrome diagnosis.

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National Review Online / June 14, 2021

New Poll Finds That Most Americans Want Abortion to Be Rare or Illegal

Alexandra DeSanctis

Gallup’s latest survey on abortion reveals a nation evenly split between pro-life and pro-choice.

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National Review Online / June 9, 2021

Big Abortion v. David Daleiden

Alexandra DeSanctis

David Daleiden published video evidence suggesting that prominent abortionists, Planned Parenthood executives, and biotechnology companies were engaged in a systematic campaign to profit from the body parts of aborted babies, in violation of state and federal laws. Nearly six years later, despite congressional investigations confirming much of what he had exposed, Daleiden and his team have been the only ones to face serious legal repercussions.

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The Human Life Review / May 21, 2021

Biden Spends First 100 Days Expanding Abortion on Demand

Alexandra DeSanctis

During the first 100 days of his administration, President Joe Biden has demonstrated his willingness to champion the progressive movement’s radical preferences on abortion policy.

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National Review Online / April 30, 2021

Planned Parenthood Can’t Disavow Margaret Sanger

Alexandra DeSanctis

The last half-century of legalized abortion has deepened the effects of racial inequality in the U.S. — and Planned Parenthood profits from that reality.

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National Review Online / April 19, 2021

Is It ‘Eugenics’ to Abort Unborn Babies with Down Syndrome?

Alexandra DeSanctis

In Ohio, lawmakers have laid down a marker establishing that it is wrong and therefore that it is now illegal to end the life of an unborn human being simply because he or she is diagnosed with a chromosomal abnormality. Supporters of abortion refuse to respond to this argument, because to do so would expose the logic of all abortion, which, regardless of disabilities, grants some human beings the power to declare the lives of others not worth living.

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National Review / April 16, 2021

Doctors Pioneer a Way to Halt Unwanted Chemical Abortions

Alexandra DeSanctis

Pro-life doctors are rallying around a new effort in the medical community: a treatment protocol that can reverse the effects of a chemical abortion before a pregnant mother loses her unborn child. Instead of helping to give women that choice, the abortion industry has come down hard against the new method.

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National Review Online / April 13, 2021

Kristi Noem’s Mistake on Fairness in Girls’ Sports

Alexandra DeSanctis

The South Dakota governor has vetoed a bill designed to ensure that female athletes aren’t forced to compete against biological men.

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National Review Online / March 23, 2021

Cancel Culture’s Condescension Problem

Alexandra DeSanctis

Culture-war obsessives believe it’s their responsibility to protect foolish people from themselves. What happened to individual freedom?

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National Review Online / March 8, 2021