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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The American College of Abortion Advocacy

  Proponents of legal abortion often couch their position in the language of female empowerment, claiming that abortion is necessary to protect women’s freedom, equality, and opportunity. But while supporters often speak about abortion in terms of “women’s rights” and...
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INTRODUCTION Spring 2022

Will a conservatively configured Supreme Court finally put a brake on “top-down enactments like Roe” that attempt to “cram great moral determinations down people’s throats”? That fateful decision, writes senior editor William Murchison, by “shielding pro-choice advocates from the...
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Spring 2021

In the blooming of spring comes new hope that we can start inching back to some kind of normal living. Masks which protect also cover up and in this issue our contributors do some serious unmasking
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Summer 2019

Elliot Summer 2019 HLR Cover Final 0919 cover and pub T H E H U M A N L I F E R E V I E W F E A T U R E D I N T H I S I S S U E Helen Alvar on ABORTION NEVER A SINGLE ISSUE Rich Lowry on THE RIGHT THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME William Murchison on THE STAGGERING BREADTH OF THE...
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SYMPOSIUM: Could Abortion Ever Be “Unthinkable” Again?

INTRODUCTION Needless to say, we are at an intense moment in the history of the pro-life movement. Although there is fervent new reaction and commentary every day in the press, we think it is also a moment to take a deep breath and reflect on some fundamental questions:  Why is...
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Spring 2019

Spring 19 cover only T H E H U M A N L I F E R E V I E W F E A T U R E D I N T H I S I S S U E THE HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION INC NEW YORK NEW YORK 10.00 PER COPY William Murchison on A PROMISCUOUS EXTENSION OF ABORTION RIGHTS Margaret Hickey on ABORTION AND PUBLIC WITNESS Stephen...
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HOT TOPIC (s): The March for Life in Review!

Here’s your “newsroom” for the March for Life 2018 wrap up: Donald Trump (Life News) Full Text of the President’s March for Life Speech Mike Pence (American Rhetoric.com) Full Text of Vice President’s March for Life Speech Paul Ryan (speaker.gov) Full Text of...
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HOT TOPIC: From NRO’s The Corner: Pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Why should we care about this Act? It mandates, for instance, that any child born alive be transported to a hospital instead of remaining in the care of the abortionist. –Alexandra Desanctis Read more at:...
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Human Life review Winter 2017

Winter 2017

WINTER 2017 cover page 1final T H E H U M A N L I F E R E V I E W F E A T U R E D I N T H I S I S S U E VOL XLIII No 1 Winter 2017 THE HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION INC NEW YORK NEW YORK 10.00 PER COPY SYMPOSIUM PRO LIFE IN THE TIME OF TRUMP Charles Camosy Marjorie Dannenfelser...
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Symposium: Pro-life in the Time of Trump

We asked our participants to reflect on “Pro-life in the Time of Trump,” and offered them the following two opposing views to consider: Charles Camosy writing the day after the election in Crux, and Marjorie Dannenfelser quoted in Susan B. Anthony List’s press release the same...
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