Pro-life for the whole life presidential candidate coming to Illinois for state's March for Life

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Pro-life for the whole life presidential candidate coming to Illinois for state's March for Life

If you aren't happy with your choices for president in November, you'll have a chance to meet the Solidarity Party's presidential nominee next month.

Mike Vick

Mar 22, 2024

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For more information on the people, groups and causes mentioned in this week’s video, check out the links below.

American Solidarity Party presidential candidate Peter Sonski will be at the March for Life in Springfield April 17. To RSVP, head to the March for Life website.

Find out more about Democratic Party presidential candidate Terrisa Bukovinac by visiting her website. You can also check out the documentary Battleground, which features Terrisa and two other national pro-life leaders.

Together Chicago will host the “Love Your School Friendraiser” Saturday, April 20, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. RSVP here.

And Campaign’s Whole Life Project will host virtual trainings April 9 and April 23 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. CT. We’ll have links for these trainings in an upcoming email. In the meantime, check out And’s Whole Life Ambassador training guide.

To find out more about the Parents Matter Coalition and their fight for parental rights in Illinois, head to their website. There, you will find information about how you can get involved locally in petition drives.

The Round Up

Here are the stories that caught our eyes this week and what they mean for the weeks ahead.

Nearly 8 in 10 AAPI adults in the US think abortion should be legal, an AP-NORC poll finds

With abortion rights poised to be one of the major issues in the 2024 election, a new poll shows that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are highly supportive of legal abortion, even in situations where the pregnant person wants an abortion for any reason.

a group of people holding up signs in front of the capitol building — Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

The poll from AAPI Data and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that nearly 8 in 10 Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders think abortion should be legal in all or most cases. They’re also supportive of federal government action to preserve abortion rights: Three-quarters of AAPI adults say Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortions nationwide.

By comparison, an AP-NORC poll conducted last June found that 64% of U.S. adults think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 6 in 10 U.S. adults overall say Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access.

Johnson doubles down, appoints official negligent in Little Village dust storm debacle to run Buildings Department

Mayor Brandon Johnson officially appointed Marlene Hopkins, the Buildings Department employee who oversaw a botched implosion of a Little Village coal plant smokestack four years ago, to be the city’s top official responsible for making sure buildings, as well as demolitions, are safe for the public.

The appointment must be confirmed by the City Council.

Hopkins, a city employee for the past 25 years, is the acting commissioner and most recently served as the first deputy commissioner of the Buildings Department.

Four years ago, she was responsible for making sure the implosion of an almost 400-foot smokestack at the former Crawford coal-fired power plant on Pulaski Road north of the Stevenson Expressway would be performed in a safe and environmentally friendly way.

When the stack came crashing down that Saturday of Easter weekend 2020, there was not enough water used to suppress the dust that created a severe public nuisance and threat to health. A giant cloud covered homes and other property with the dust.

Charlie Dates counters John MacArthur’s declaration that MLK ‘Was not a Christian’

The Rev. Charlie Dates, the pastor of two historically Black churches in Chicago, is defending the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. after California pastor John MacArthur declared in February that the civil rights leader “was not a Christian at all.”

Pastor John MacArthur, left, and the Rev. Charlie Dates. (Left: video screen grab; Right: photo by Denis Contreras)

“We, the undersigned, regret that we have to write you this way, but we sense that this is the only way to address the egregious wrong that you — and those like you — have yet again inflicted on Black Christians in America,” Dates wrote in an open letter that appears on the website of his Progressive Baptist Church in Chicago.

“Undoubtedly, you, Mr. MacArthur, have made significant and helpful contributions to the reading and understanding of scripture for our present age. How ironic it now feels to write to you, a teacher, a word of correction. We hope that you will find within this missive a patient and reasonable rebuttal for your unwise and ill-timed slander of the Rev. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.”

The controversy reflects the lines that have been drawn in disputes among Reformed Christians and other Christian groups over issues related to race or social justice.