NR’s essential chronicler and advocate for the pro-life cause is providing the best arguments in the fight to protect the unborn.
Just as in the rest of the country, at National Review, the movement to overturn Roe v. Wade was a multigenerational one. After the original decision, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote that “the public needs to experience a release from a subtle thralldom to judicial morality.” He sought deliverance of “the republic from a presumptuous ethical-political tribunal which has come to treat the Constitution with something like an author’s possessiveness.”
The magazine’s current editor, Ramesh Ponnuru, came to national prominence making the case against Roe and for the unborn in his 2006 book, The Party of Death. And now the torch has been passed to Alexandra DeSanctis, whose tireless and sharp work on this beat has filled the magazine and NRO for six years. Now that Roe is gone and Americans get to resolve the issue legislatively, her work is more necessary than ever. I’m asking you to support her vital work. Thanks to a generous supporter, every dollar we raise is going to be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000.
Alexandra (we call her Xan) is the most essential chronicler and advocate on this issue.
You’ve probably seen a lot of sensationalist claims and panic on social media about the end of Roe. Xan’s journalism provides you with ways to answer them. She was ahead of everyone, exposing the Left for spreading disinformation on the risks to mothers enduring ectopic pregnancies after the fall of Roe. She patiently unravels the lies, and shows how pro-life laws do not prohibit treatment for miscarriages. She called out the New York Times for a scientifically illiterate report on fetal heartbeats.
As an analyst, she provides NR readers with incisive political, legal, and philosophical arguments in the fight to protect the unborn. She has confronted the evolving rhetoric and talking points on the left about “forced births.”
And as an advocate, Xan takes the debate out of the page and into real life. She debated feminist Jill Filipovic at Notre Dame in March.
With Roe gone, Xan has exposed the radicalism of Democrats in blue states, who hope to create “abortion sanctuaries.” And she keeps our readers informed on how abortion is changing in the 2020s.
In this new legal landscape, everything is up for grabs, and real gains are possible. Our readers — including those in the House and Senate — need, more than ever, the insight she provides. Democrats are going to fight to codify Roe from Congress, to stake out the most extreme positions in blue states. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants the federal government to open up abortion clinics at federal buildings in red states that restrict the procedure.
National Review has been in this fight for 50 years because of support from readers like you. William F. Buckley used to write these appeals for support as well. And now we all make a practice of writing them, because the work we do at NR is vital for the conservative movement, and for the nation.
Don’t believe the haters — this movement is still accomplishing big things even when Democrats are in power. So come on. Open up your wallet. Because of the enthusiasm of one benefactor, every dollar you give today will be matched until we reach $100,000. By doing it, you are supporting vital journalism, and effective advocacy for our Constitution and for the unborn.
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