Students for Life Group Witnesses a Baby SAVED in Washington

This year, Students for Life of America started our TALK program through which we challenge students to reach over 250,000 conversations about abortion in the 2019-2020 school year. That’s 1 million minutes of conversations, changing hearts and minds! There are so many conversations a person can have about abortion and these conversations can introduce opportunities to help women and save lives. Just recently, The Tri-Cities Washington Students for Life group accepted our TALK Challenge. While protesting in front of Planned Parenthood, they had a conversation with a couple intending to get an abortion. Seeing the students outside helped the couple realize that there is hope and they

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August 15, 2019

Trump Nominates Former Students For Life Leader To Federal Judgeship

President Trump has nominated Sarah Pitlyk, the founder of Yale Law Students for Life and an attorney for the pro-life non-profit Thomas More Society to become a federal judge. Pitlyk has been nominated for a seat in the Eastern District of Missouri, according to courthousenews.com.

Pitlyk also clerked for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh and has frequently defended high profile pro-life clients, including David Daleiden.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of Americasaid, “Sarah Pitlyk is an excellent nominee to be a federal judge and we are excited to see a former leader of ours nominated to be a federal judge. Her intellect, compassion, and integrity will serve the interests of all who come before her in court. “

We are so proud of former Yale Law Students for Life founder Sarah Pitlyk on her nomination to be a federal judge.

— Students for Life (@StudentsforLife) August 15, 2019

Great news for our community!

Posted by SLU Students for Life on Tuesday, July 30, 2019

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Pitlyk has worked on a series of anti-abortion legal cases in recent years, including: 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 that claimed that Planned Parenthood was selling fetal tissue….In the other seven cases, all filed in 2019, Pitlyk was one of the lawyers who filed amicus briefs on behalf of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion advocacy organization that supported abortion-related rule changes by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Those changes were being challenged in a series of lawsuits. The rules bar clinics that receive federal money from referring patients to abortion providers, among other requirements.”