Democrats and progressive groups expressed outrage after the U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to confirm lawyer Sarah Pitlyk for a lifetime appointment on the federal bench.

The 49-44 vote to confirm Pitlyk for judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri continues the Trump administration’s rapid, rightward shift of the federal courts, an accomplishment about which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell regularly brags.

Currently special counsel at the anti-choice law firm Thomas More Society, Pitlyk was previously clerk to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was judge for the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia Circuit. Pitlyk was among a group of Kavanaugh’s former female law clerks who wrote to the Senate to express their “uniformly positive experiences” with Kavanaugh, who stands accused of sexual assault, during his confirmation process.

Pitlyk’s record, according to Marge Baker, PFAW’s executive vice president for policy and program, “is one of the worst we’ve seen among Trump judicial nominees.” NARAL Pro-Choice America president lyse Hogue, for her part, called Pitlyk’s confirmation to the Missouri federal court “a dream come true for the anti-choice movement and a profound danger to women and families in the state.”

Among the factors driving the criticism is that the American Bar Association, in a letter (pdf) to the Senate in September, unanimously said that Pitlyk was “not qualified” for the position, citing her lack of “requisite trail or litigation experience or its equivalent.”

In addition, HuffPost reported Tuesday on how Pitlyk has written and spoken against fertility treatments and surrogacy—a record that prompted Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) to write an op-ed published Wednesday at The Hill urging her colleagues to vote no. She wrote, “if Donald Trump’s recent judicial nominees has her way, thousands of women like me may never be able to become moms.”

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