Alexandra DeSanctis

Alexandra DeSanctis is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributor to National Review.


The Debate Over Whether Life Matters

  It has become common in the three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade for prolifers to describe the Dobbs decision as a milestone in a longer journey, and in that same time frame it has become clear that we need a better roadmap. The prolife movement spent...
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INTRODUCTION Fall 2025

As I write, news outlets are reporting what AP calls “the first reported use of [Chinese] artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion.” On the euthanasia/suicide front, a Canadian reports losing two grandmothers to Medical Assistance in...
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Fall 2025

ABOUT BILL MURCHISON AND SOMETHING ABOUT ME His heart just stopped So spoke Nancy Murchison when she called with the sad news that her husband William Polk Murchison Jr had died in Dallas on Oct 8 And what a big heart his was Bill reported on the unruly clash of politics and...
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SYMPOSIUM: What’s God Got to Do with It?

  The Human Life Review editors invited the participants on the following pages to contribute a reaction to the statement below: In the decades between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs, most prolifers believed that Americans were more or less opposed to legalized abortion on demand...
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SPRING 2025

SPRING 2025 COVERFront and inside back 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 A L S O I N T H I S I S S U E THE HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION INC NEW YORK NEW YORK 10.00 PER COPY Dawn Eden Goldstein on POPE FRANCIS FOR LIFE William Murchison on THE TIME...
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Introduction Winter 2025

At our 50th anniversary dinner last fall, co-host Jack Fowler rolled his eyes at the notion of “depressed” Americans who, unhappy with the election results, wanted to move to Canada: “They kill depressed people in Canada,” he quipped. That might come as a surprise to Hollywood...
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Winter 2025

Ellen Wilson Fielding on THE INALIENABLE GIFT OF HUMAN DIGNITY William Murchison on THE IRRELIGIOUS EMBRACE OF SELF SLAUGHTER Gerard T Mundy on WHEN A NURSE KILLS HER UNAWARE PATIENTS Perry Hendricks on ABORTION RESTRICTIONS ARE GOOD FOR BLACK WOMEN Karl D Stephan on CHANGING THE...
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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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