Alexandra DeSanctis

Alexandra DeSanctis is a staff writer at National Review and a visiting fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She is author, with Ryan T. Anderson, of the forthcoming book Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing.

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Personalism as the Fullest Response to the Flawed Anthropology of the Sexual Revolution and Identity Politics

    Two of the most pervasive cultural ills of our time, identity politics and the fallout from the sexual revolution, are best understood if we consider them deeply intertwined. Both of these problems flow from the same disordered font, a flawed anthropology that views...
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Summer/Fall 2024 – 50th Anniversary Issue

Summer Fall 2024 cover GOLD FINAL pages 1 and 3 THE HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION INC NEW YORK NEW YORK 15.00 PER COPY the HUMAN LIFE REVIEW 5 0 T H A N N I V E R S A R Y I S S U E VOLUME L Nos 3 4 SUMMER FALL 2024 FEATURING WILLIAM F BUCKLEY JR ELLEN WILSON FIELDING WILLIAM MURCHISON...
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PUSHING ROE V. WADE OVER THE BRINK: THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA’S HEART, THE HUMAN RIGHT TO LIFE, AND A FUTURE FULL OF HOPE

Clarke D. Forsythe and Alexandra DeSanctis (Americans United for Life, hardcover, 324 pages, $19.95, PB $14.95) Reviewed by John M. Grondelski _____________________________________________________________________ The history of U.S. pro-life activism is woefully under-documented....
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IVF: The Next Battlefield

    Who, me? A fresh-faced symbol of youthful aspiration? So much time have I spent shuffling off this mortal coil that Joe Biden and I could have double-dated at the root beer stand—had that eccentric notion seized either of us. That is how I’ve come to see a lot....
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Spring 2024

Spring 2024 Human Life Review William Murchison on IVF THE NEXT BATTLEFIELD Karl D Stephan on A PRO ABORTION EPIPHANY Edward Short on MARRIAGE MOTHERHOOD AND THE PLAIN PEOPLE OF IRELAND Mary Rose Somarriba on HOW WE NEGLECT PREGNANT WOMENS MENTAL HEALTH Leonard F Grant III on...
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INTRODUCTION Summer 2023

  A recent news story got me wondering how much longer sane people will tolerate the devolution of the sexual revolution into farce. The CDC, apparently, is now using its website to instruct transgender men (women) whose breasts have been cut off on how to “chestfeed” their...
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Summer 2023

cover THE HUMAN LIFE REVIEW FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE ALSO IN THIS ISSUE THE HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION INC NEW YORK NEW YORK 10.00 PER COPY William Murchison on THE MORAL CLARITY OF MARY EBERSTADT Alexandra DeSanctis on FEMINISTS AND CONTRACEPTION Anne Hendershott and Lucia Hunt on THE...
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Symposium: Where Do We Go from Dobbs?

    This October we will hold our 20th Great Defender of Life dinner, and soon after commence celebrating our 50th anniversary year. We are grateful to have outlived Roe, but the question today is: Where does the pro-life movement go from here? While saving unborn...
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Tearing Us Apart: A Resource for Reshaping the Abortion Landscape

NATION FACES CHANGED ABORTION LANDSCAPE —Headline, the New York Times, June 26, 2022   Sure enough? The Times, the Times!—America’s narrow-eyed bearer of meat-slab tidings and truths wouldn’t tickle us under the chin with a feather, would it, hoping to provoke a giggl...
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Summer 2022

Summer 22 Cover front and inside back IPM Printed Final THE HUMAN LIFE REVIEW ALSO IN THIS ISSUE VOLUME XLVIII No 3 SUMMER 2022 THE HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION INC NEW YORK NEW YORK 10.00 PER COPY Appendices Francis X Maier Helen Alvar David F Forte Kody Cooper Booknotes Brian...
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