Pro-Life Yard Signs Across America
Pro-Life in the Public Square
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The Mission
Pro-Life Yard Signs Across America (PLYSAA) was launched in October of 2024 out of three decades of Pro-Life Waco grassroots activism. The mission of both organizations is contributing to stronger public square outreach across America.
Public square outreach engages the entire cross-section of a community. This includes the pro-life faithful and ardent abortion supporters. However, the most crucial group is the broad “mushy middle”—those who are not well-informed or firmly committed on abortion. Public square outreach is all about changing hearts and minds. a
The famous words of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates will shape PLYSAA's strategy. See the adjacent quote.
A sharp focus on the nature of local public square outreach is helped by seeing what public square outreach IS NOT. This branch of the movement is not politics, sidewalk counseling, pregnancy and abortion recovery support, or prayer vigils. These branches of the pro-life movement are vitally important and well-developed. The mission of PLYSAA is to help strengthen public square outreach from coast to coast through encouragement and the sale of highly subsides yard signs.
Local public square outreach has two sub-branches:
1. Taking positions at strategic locations to engage with signs, literature, and conversations (Life Chain events, overpass outreach, protesting abortion providers and enablers, face-the-truth tours, displaying at fairs and festivals, and tabling at college campuses).
2. Displaying fixed signs (billboards, yard signs, bus benches, etc.)..
Think of public sentiment in terms of three ranges:
(See Figure 1.)
- the pro-life faithful (represented by the red area),
- the staunch abortion supporters (represented by blue),
- and the largest and most important “mushy middle” (unaware, undecided, uncertain). This is the large white area. PLYSAA leadership believes the pro-life movement has focused on the pro-life faithful and abortion supporters, while neglecting the mushy middle.
Success in public square outreach increases the
red pro-life range over time by reducing the blue and
white areas. This shift is shown by a transition from Figure 1 to Figure 2. Hearts and minds change, and eventually political outcomes.
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essay on Lincoln
and public sentiment.
The sole purpose of Pro-Life Yard Signs Across America is to advance local
public square outreach through encouragement and financial support to other grassroots groups nationwide.
The primary motivation for creating PLYSAA is that the pro-life movement
does not sufficiently penetrate the mushy middle of the public sentiment grid.
The movement's weakness in public square outreach was revealed in
two major ways since the Dobbs Supreme Court Decision of 2022. The first
was the crushing string of statewide ballot losses after the fall of Roe. By the
end of 2024, we won only 3 ballot contests, compared to 14 defeats! Our ballot
losses were typically by wide margins and injected full abortion access into state constitutions. Additionally, abortions since the Dobbs decision increased about 5% annually and remain above one millions per year.
Acknowledging negative trends should not discourage the pro-life movement, but rather intensify our outreach and open our minds to shortcomings that we must rectify. A week public square outreach branch is a significant weakness of the pro-life movement.
Pro-Life Yard Signs Across America PLYSAA is the only national organization devoted solely to assisting other organizations in their public square outreach. We offer yard signs for $4, subsidizing each sign by just over $4. Our alternative name for yard sign is "mini-billboard".
Drawing on our 30 years of deploying signs in the public square, we offer free sign designs and technical support for other types of signs, such as billboards, bus benches and billboard trucks. Billboards in small cities are a special opportunity and priority. We continue to provide subsidized signs to any group committed to regular protest at CVS or Walgreens pharmacies.
Pro-Life Yard Signs Across America will work tirelessly to promote the revival of local public square outreach. We welcome your financial support, participation, and prayers.
John Pisciotta, Founding Executive Director, prolifewaco@gmail.com
Pro-Life Yard Signs Across America (founded in 2024)
Pro-Life Waco (founded in 1995)