[ [link removed] ]Tell the Senate: Stand with women. Block Sarah Pitlyk.

The petition to the Senate reads:
"Block anti-abortion extremist Sarah Pitlyk's judicial confirmation."

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Dear Jack,

[ [link removed] ]Tell the Senate: Stand
with women. Block Sarah
Pitlyk.

Sarah Pitlyk devoted her career to defending extreme abortion bans,
slashing access to reproductive health care and protecting powerful
misogynists from accountabilty.^1

Donald Trump and Republicans are about to reward her with a lifetime
appointment to the federal bench. We cannot let that happen.

Not only is Pitlyk arguably the worst of Trump's judicial nominees when it
comes to reproductive health and rights, she also has zero trial
experience. She is completely unqualified and clearly biased. The Senate
must block her judicial confirmation.

[ [link removed] ]Tell the Senate: Sarah Pitlyk has no place on the federal bench. Click
here to sign the petition.

Pitlyk is the latest in a long line of Trump judicial nominees that the
American Bar Association (ABA) rated "Not-Qualified" to serve as a federal
judge. She is also one of four nominees who earned that rating
unanimously.^2 The ABA's rating should disqualify Pitlyk outright, but
Trump and Republicans are so desperate to install anti-woman federal
judges that the only thing that matters to them is Pitlyk's extremist bona
fides.

Pitlyk spent her entire legal career defending unconstitutional abortion
bans and attacking reproductive rights. She:^3,4

* Defended Iowa's unconstitutional six-week abortion ban.
* Helped block a St. Louis ordinance that barred employment and housing
discrimination against people who had abortions or use birth control.
* Used a divorce proceeding to try to establish personhood rights to a
frozen embryo.
* Opposes and spreads dangerous lies about surrogacy and vitro
fertilization.
* Supports the Trump administration's Title X gag rule, which is
jeopardizing health care access for more than 1 million Planned
Parenthood patients.

And that's not all. Pitlyk also used her platform to protect morally
bankrupt misogynists from accountability. She vouched for sexual predator
Brett Kavanaugh and defended Planned Parenthood smear-campaign architect
David Daleiden in multiple cases.^5 There is no doubt that as a federal
judge, Pitlyk will be one of anti-woman Republicans' most dangerous
weapons.

We cannot allow the Senate to hand her a lifetime appointment and the
power to make decisions that could strip away women's rights and access to
health care for generations to come.

Tell the Senate: Sarah Pitlyk has no place on the federal bench. Click the
link below to sign the petition.

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Thanks for all you do,

Nicole Regalado, Campaign Director
[ [link removed] ]CREDO Action from Working Assets

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References:

 1. Dahlia Lithwick, "[ [link removed] ]The Judges Republicans Are Doing It All For,"
Slate, Oct. 23, 2019.
 2. Jessica Mason Pieklo, "[ [link removed] ]This Kavanaugh Defender and Abortion Foe
Could End Up on the Federal Bench," Rewire, Oct. 24, 2019.
 3. Theresa Lau, "[ [link removed] ]Five Reasons the Senate Should Reject Problematic
Judicial Nominee Sarah Pitlyk," National Women's Law Center, Oct. 1,
2019.
 4. Pieklo, "[ [link removed] ]This Kavanaugh Defender and Abortion Foe Could End Up on
the Federal Bench."
 5. Ibid.

(photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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