On Wednesday the White House
announced a number of intended judicial, US Attorney and US Marshall nominations. Among these are the nomination of Sarah Pitlyk for a judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch details her past work on pro-life and religious liberty issues:
Pitlyk is special counsel to the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, a not-for-profit law firm "dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, and religious liberty." At the society, she worked to defeat an "abortion sanctuary city" ordinance in St. Louis, and on "several landmark pro-life and religious liberty cases." ...
Pitlyk was involved in a dispute over whether a divorced St. Louis County couple's frozen embryos were property or "unborn children" under Missouri law; a civil lawsuit filed against Planned Parenthood by a man acquitted of a bomb threat charge; and the defense of a man accused in California of making a false exposé claiming Planned Parenthood was selling fetal tissue....
Pitlyk graduated summa cum laude from Boston College before receiving master’s degrees in philosophy from Georgetown University and in applied biomedical ethics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where she was a Fulbright Scholar...
She graduated from Yale in 2008 ... [where she] founded Yale Law Students for Life.
