Democrats for Life

A group I didn't even know existed, and a very useful website.
It's already lead me a similarly caused website:
silentsolidarityday / standtrue

Pro-"life"

The criticism I hear most often about the pro-"life" movement is that being pro-life is about "more than that [abortion]" and therefore, those who focus on anti-abortion and call it pro-life are ignoring capital punishment, lack of health care, the war, and a myriad of social justice issues that affect "life."

I think these people are splitting hairs and looking for an excuse to not make themselves sound anti-baby. Choosing a life name appeals to me because it's commonly associated with the anti-abortion position, but my concern is the same problem would plague this project if given a simple life name.

What do you think? Should we avoid a name with life in it to keep our cause simple and direct?

Congressional Acts

I'm not sure how congressional acts fit in to this project, but I guess it's good to know where the battle is being fought.

Supportive Legislation:

Sanctity of Human Life Act
Life at Conception Act
Pregnant Women Support Act

Dangerous Legislation:

Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act

There's a lot more to look at at OpenCongress.org.

A Rose

Just some brainstorming on names/name components:

• praying for the future
• praying for an end to abortion
• united we pray
• where two or three
• an hour for the unborn
• the unborn hour
• every life
• a prayer for every life
• prayer for life
  
• the silent prayer of the unborn
• the voices of the unborn
• I am the voice of the unborn
  

Some phrases I believe are already used for the cause that may work or could be tweaked:

• save the unborn
• respect life
• right to life

Other ideas?

Research

Things to look into:

• See you at the pole - What have they done?  How did they grow?  What can we learn? is there a "they" to be contacted?
  
  
• City Hall - Is this the right place?  Do we need some kind of permission?  What potential obstructions could be caused?  How do we avoid being a nuissance while making our presence powerful?
  
  
• General searching on anti-abortion movements, laws, progress, slogans, merchandise, etc.
  

Timing

Thinking about when would be the best time, and early fall seems good. Spring strikes me as too cold and precipitate in much of the country, northern states might still be covered in snow. Summer may get too hot and thus temperature prohibitive, but seems like the second best option and may have virtues over fall that I'm not considering.

I think October is respect life month.
September has symbolic merit as the ninth month.

I think a Sunday sounds best, giving the most people the opportunity to participate without conflicting with work.

Something midafternoon so as not too be too early for the west coast or too late for the east coast if everyone is to be praying at the *exact* same hour. Somewhere between 12pm CT (10am PT, though it's only 8am in Hawaii) and 4pm (5pm ET)? I don't want people to not come because it requires getting up too early or sitting outside after dark. The idea is to be accessible. Though it may be easier to just say 1pm local time and have it be more of a wave of prayer rather than a single point.

Thoughts?

Branding

Eventually, I would like there to be a nice logo and a real web page. For now, I have random ideas about what could be on the webpage. I'd like to keep it very clean and simple, with just a link or two.

• A general mission statement with rules or guidelines
  
• A map of how many people are committed to praying for an end to abortion outside their city hall all over the country(/world?)
• A zazzle store with tshirts, buttons, bumperstickers, bags, mugs, signs, the works
• A way to sign up for email reminders of the event 1 month, 1 week, 1 day in advance