Personal PAC: Supporting Illinois Pro-Choice & Women's Rights

Pro-Choice. No Exceptions.

2024 Primary Election Endorsements

The Personal PAC Board of Directors is proud to release its endorsements of pro-choice candidates leading up to the March 19, 2024 Primary Elections.

Abortion rights are on the ballot in 2024, and it has never been more important that we elect leaders up and down the ballot who are unapologetic in their support of reproductive rights and willing to do everything in their power to ensure access to abortion care is accessible to everyone in Illinois.

The people of Illinois trust Personal PAC’s endorsements to ensure that they are only voting for 100% pro-choice candidates. We have worked hard to turn Illinois into a safe haven for abortion access and reproductive rights. Every election, every cycle we must defend the progress we have won and work to make sure that abortion stays safe, legal, and accessible to all in Illinois. 

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Illinois State Senate

SD 1 – Javier Cervantes

SD 4 – Kimberly Lightford

SD 5 – Lakesia Collins

SD 7 – Michael Simmons

SD 10 – Robert Martwick

SD 13 – Robert Peters

SD 20 – Natalie Toro

SD 22 – Cristina Castro

SD 25 – Karina Villa

SD 28 – Laura Murphy

SD 31 – Mary Edly Allen 

SD 34 – Steve Stadelman  

SD 43 – Rachel Ventura  

SD 46 – David Koehler 

SD 52 – Paul Faraci

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
(6-Year Term) – Marcelino Garcia

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
(6-Year Term) – Kari K. Steele

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
(6-Year Term) – Daniel “Pogo” Pogorzelski

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
(2-Year Term) – Precious Brady-Davis

Cook County

Cook County Commissioner (1st District) – Tara Stamps

   

Illinois House of Representatives

HD 2 – Lisa Hernandez

HD 3 – Eva-Dina Delgado

HD 4 – Lilian Jiménez

HD 5 – Kimberly du Buclet

HD 6 – Sonya M. Harper

HD 7 – Emanuel “Chris” Welch

HD 9 – Yolonda Morris

HD 11 –  Ann M. Williams

HD 12 – Margaret Croke

HD 13 – Hoan Huynh

HD 14 – Kelly M.  Cassidy

HD 15 – Michael J. Kelly

HD 16 – Kevin John Olickal

HD 17 – Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz

HD 18 – Robyn Gabel

HD 19 – Lindsey LaPointe

HD 21 – Abdelnasser Rashid

HD 23 – Edgar Gonzalez, Jr.

HD 24 – Theresa Mah

HD 26 – Kam Buckner

HD 27 – Justin Slaughter

HD 28 – Robert “Bob” Rita

HD 29 – Thaddeus Jones

HD 31 – Michael Crawford

HD 32 – Lisa J. Davis 

HD 34 – Nicholas K. Smith

HD 35 – Mary Gill

HD 39 – Will Guzzardi

HD 40 – Jaime M. Andrade, Jr. 

HD 41 – Janet Yang Rohr

HD 42 – Terra Costa Howard

HD 43 – Anna Moeller

HD 45 – Martha Deuter

HD 46 – Diane Blair-Sherlock

HD 49 – Maura Hirschauer

HD 50 – Barbara Hernandez

HD 51 – Nabeela Syed

HD 52 – Maria Peterson

HD 53 – Mark L. Walker

HD 54 – Mary Beth Canty

HD 56 – Michelle Mussman

HD 57 – Tracy Katz Muhl 

HD 58 – Bob Morgan

HD 59 – Daniel Didech

HD 61 – Joyce Mason

HD 62 – Laura Faver Dias

HD 65 – Linda R. Robertson

HD 66 – Suzanne M. Ness

HD 67 – Maurice A. West, II

HD 69 – Peter Janko

HD 70 – Randi Olson

HD 72 – Gregg Johnson

HD 74 – David Simpson

HD 76 – Amy “Murri” Briel

HD 76 – Cohen Barnes

HD 76 – Carolyn “Morris” Zasada

HD 79 – William Morgan

HD 83 – Matt Hanson

HD 84 – Stephanie A. Kifowit

HD 85 – Dagmara Avelar

HD 91 – Sharon Chung

HD 95 – Kristen Chiaro

HD 97 – Harry Benton

HD 98 – Natalie A. Manley

HD 104 – Jarrett Clem

HD 112 – Katie Stuart

HD 114 – LaToya Greenwood

 

Judicial

1st Supreme, Burke Vacancy, Joy Virginia Cunningham

1st Appellate, Connors Vacancy, Mary Lane Mikva

1st Appellate, Cunningham Vacancy, Cynthia Y. Cobbs

1st Appellate, Delort Vacancy, Celia Louise Gamrath

1st Appellate, O’Neill Burke Vacancy, Carl Anthony Walker

3rd Appellate, Lytton Vacancy, Joe Hettel

3rd Appellate, O’Brien Vacancy, Linda Davenport

3rd Appellate, Schmidt Vacancy, Lance Peterson

Cook County Circuit Court, Flannery, Jr. Vacancy, Pablo F. deCastro

Cook County Circuit Court, Gaughan Vacancy, Corinne C. Heggie 

Cook County Circuit Court, Haberkorn Vacancy, Sarah Johnson

Cook County Circuit Court, Hubbard Vacancy, Deidre M. Dyer

Cook County Circuit Court, Mitchell Vacancy, Neil Cohen

Cook County Circuit Court, Murphy Vacancy, Edward Joseph Underhill

Cook County Circuit Court,  Propes Vacancy, Debjani “Deb” Desai

Cook County Circuit Court, Sullivan Vacancy, James S. Murphy-Aguilú

Cook County Circuit Court, Walker Vacancy, Chloe Georgianna Pedersen

Cook County 3rd Subcircuit, Harmening Vacancy, Pat Heery

Cook County 4th Subcircuit, King Vacancy, Philip Fowler

Cook County 4th Subcircuit, Maloney Vacancy, Koula A. Fournier

Cook County 5th Subcircuit, Lewis Vacancy, Yolanda Harris Sayre

Cook County 7th Subcircuit, Solganick Vacancy, Owens J. Shelby

Cook County 8th Subcircuit, Collins-Dole Vacancy, Loveleen Ahuja

Cook County 10th Subcircuit, Wojkowski Vacancy, Liam Kelly

Cook County 11th Subcircuit, Daleo Vacancy, Kim Przekota

Cook County 12th Subcircuit, Dickler Vacancy, Alon Stein

Cook County 12th Subcircuit, Quinn Vacancy, Frank J. Andreou

Cook County 12th Subcircuit, James “Jack” Costello

Cook County 13th Subcircuit, Betar, III Vacancy, Ralph E. Meczyk

Cook County 13th Subcircuit, Steffen Vacancy, Mary Sevandal Cohen

Cook County 14th Subcircuit, O’Hara Vacancy, Griselda Vega Samuel

Cook County 17th Subcircuit, Converted from Associate Judgeship of Carmen K. Aguilar, Rivanda Doss Beal

Cook County 18th Subcircuit, Converted from Associate Judgeship of James B. Linn, John Hock

Cook County 18th Subcircuit, Converted from Associate Judgeship of Lauren Gottainer Edidin, Sunil Bhave

Cook County 19th Subcircuit, Converted from Associate Judgeship of Robert E. Senechalle, Jr., Risa Renee Lanier

Cook County 19th Subcircuit, Converted from Associate Judgeship of Robert E. Senechalle, Jr., Bridget Colleen Duignan

Cook County 20th Subcircuit, Converted from Associate Judgeship of Elizabeth M. Budzinski, Nickolas Pappas

Cook County 20th Subcircuit, Converted from Associate Judgeship of Elizabeth M. Budzinski, Michael J. Zink

 Cook County 20th Subcircuit, Converted from Associate Judgeship of Elizabeth M. Budzinski, Nadine Jean Wichern

16th  Circuit, 4th Subcircuit, Hull, III Vacancy, Sandra Parga

18th Circuit, 1st Subcircuit, Brennan Vacancy, Chantelle Porter

18th Circuit, 2nd Subcircuit, Davenport Vacancy, Jennifer Barron

18th Circuit, 3rd Subcircuit, Kinsella Vacancy, Leah Danielle Setzen

Making Illinois a Safe Place for Women’s Reproductive Health Care

Personal PAC, an Illinois pro-choice organization, is implementing a multi-step strategy that will protect women’s reproductive rights in Illinois through 2032, regardless of any decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. With the passage of the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) and the repeal of the Parental Notice of Abortion (PNA) law, Personal PAC accomplished its goal of repealing all existing anti-choice statutes and enacting pro-choice legislation in their place. Now, the fight to criminalize abortion moves to the local level, with anti-choice extremists focusing on passing bans in cities and towns across the state. With your help, Personal PAC will be there to meet them at every new front in the war on women’s rights. 

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One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Thanks to Trump’s Supreme Court overturning Roe, we must depend on our state and local elected officials to protect reproductive health care rights in Illinois. With abortion bans going into effect in more than half of all states, we need your full support to ensure Illinois can be here for all women from across the country. Without Illinois, women between the two coasts will have no place to turn for access to abortion services–putting a target square on our back for the anti-choice activists who have already achieved their goals in our surrounding states. When you support our work, you also donate to Illinois pro-choice candidates and campaigns, which helps to protect reproductive freedom for women across the Midwest!

Women’s Rights Are At Greater Risk Than Ever.

Personal PAC Fights to Protect Choice And Save Lives

Since 1989, Personal PAC has been fighting for and defending the inalienable right to choose for Illinois women. We elect officials who support choice and fight relentlessly against those who would take it away.

With the evisceration of Roe v. Wade, the health and lives of women are at stake for generations. We can go back to the dark days of dirty and deadly back-alley abortions…or work together to elect pro-choice leaders willing to fight for Illinois pro-abortion rights legislation to keep Illinois safe, healthy, and free.

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Keeping Abortion Safe and Legal Since 1989

For decades, Illinois had some of the most restrictive, anti-women, and outright cruel abortion restrictions in the United States. In 1989, Personal PAC was founded to reverse that tide. With the help of citizens across the state, we’ve been incredibly successful. But the fight never ends.

The enemies of choice never stop. And neither will we.

How we’ve protected choice for over 30 years

Pro-Choice Bills Passed

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Election success for actively supported candidates

Anti-Choice Bills Defeated

Candidates Successfully Elected

Abortion in Illinois Is Under Attack By Right-Wing Extremists

HB 40 prevents Illinois from automatically making abortion illegal and dangerous when Roe is overturned and ensures that women who rely on Medicaid for their health insurance and state employees have access to abortion care. Right-wing politicians are trying to repeal HB 40 and make Illinois a more dangerous state for all women.

22 Anti-Abortion Bills Currently Pending in the Illinois General Assembly

The Reproductive Health Act (Rha)

In June of 2019, the Reproductive Health Act became law. The RHA modernized the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 which prohibited access for women to legally terminate an unwanted pregnancy. This update to Illinois’ laws gives women fundamental rights to make decisions about their own reproductive health care, including maternity and abortion care.

Since the RHA has gone into effect, right-wing legislators have filed bills for its repeal.  If this repeal is passed, it would result in women losing their constitutional right to legal and safe abortions in Illinois, which is why Personal PAC is dedicated to continuing the fight to protect women’s reproductive health care rights. Illinois women are depending on us.

Right-wing politicians have filed a bill to repeal the RHA

Get Involved

Stop The March of Extremism

In states around Illinois and across the country, women are having their reproductive rights attacked and their access to abortion services eliminated. Get involved to help keep Illinois safe for the women in this state and across the country who need us. We can continue to be a sanctuary of women’s health care, but only if we continue electing pro-choice candidates in Illinois.

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We Can’t Go Back to This

When abortion is illegal, women are forced to risk everything. Sheila was brave enough to share her story of desperation, cruelty, and abandonment. It’s a story of survival, but one she never should have had to go through. Her story is one too many women have had to tell. We can never go back to those dark and deadly days. With your help, we’ll fight against those who want to drag us back.

Read the stories

“There if I Needed It”

At 17, I was the first of my friends to have sex. Growing up in a middle-class suburb of the Twin Cities, I was lucky that when I thought I was pregnant there was a safe place I could go to get a free pregnancy test without shame or pressure. I was at the top of my senior class and on my way to being the first of my family to go to college – my whole life was ahead of me. I knew that a baby would take away all my future prospects. When the test came back negative I was relieved. Looking back, I don’t think I realized at the time how lucky I was to have the option of an abortion if I needed it. But now, watching the restrictions being placed on a woman’s reproductive health rights across the country, I wonder what my life would be like now if that test came back positive.

– Megan, 37

Share Your Story

When we share our stories about abortion, we learn about strong women making positive choices to improve their lives and protect their health. We show each other that we are not alone in this fight and that there is a supportive community within Personal PAC. We’d be honored if you shared your story. Let’s remember the lives we are fighting for.

Upcoming Events

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Pro-Choice. No Exceptions.

Donate to the Illinois Pro-Choice Movement Today To Keep Abortion Legal

The opponents of choice never stop their assault on women’s rights. Every generation has to fight. And for every generation, Personal PAC will be there to keep Illinois abortion legal. Help us protect women’s reproductive rights today, tomorrow, and for years to come.

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