Bank of America Outreach/Protest
Returned to Waco, Texas in April of 2021

Suspended!! This is to "make room" for #ProtestCVS in Waco 
which launched on March 31, 2023.

We use this flyer to inform
and start discussions with
BOA customers, pedestrians,
and vehicle travelers.
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The goal for Pro-Life Waco's monthly outreach at the most prominent BOA branch in Waco. Multiple impact
1. Our central goal is to compel BOA nationwide to terminate financial support for Planned Parenthood. This result would deliver a modest financial setback and a huge public image blow to Planned Parenthood, Other corporate donors would be emboldened to follow suit.
2. Additionally, every #BOAoutreach sends a powerful message to the broader business community, revealing that supporting Planned Parenthood can become a public relations nightmare.
3. We are the media!  #BOAoutreach is an opportunity to educate the public. We distribute a flyers at each outreach. Education and conversation opportunities are plentiful at a downtown branch with a public sidewalk entrance.
4. #BOAoutreach is an encouragement to the pro-life silent majority revealing that they are by no means a minority in America. The response to “Honk Now” signs is substantial.
5. #BOAoutreach can trigger pro-life activation. #ProtestBOA can be an entry way for new pro-life foot soldiers. We have brought in new foot soldiers with #ProtestBOA.
6. #BOAoutreachcan be a memorable family activity. Let your children, grandchildren and siblings catch you in the act of pro-life discipleship. A photo of your family at #ProtestBOA is a wonderful keepsake.

Considering all of the above, success in each Bank of America outreach event is 100% assured.
Why we target Bank of America.
     Pro-Life Waco resumed monthly outreach to expose Bank of America on April 23, 2021.  
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     Bank of America was one of the 38 corporations listed by The Daily Signal (7-21-2015) as a donor to Planned Parenthood at the outset of the scandal over fetal organs "harvested" from aborted babies. Bank of America includes Planned Parenthood in its 100% match to employees donations. Bank of American has also supported Planned Parenthood fundraising events. THE ENABLERS OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD MUST BE CHALLENGED IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE!

     Back in 2015 – 2016, Pro-Life Waco engaged in vigorous challenges at Bank of America locations in Waco, Austin, and BOA headquarters in Charlotte, NC. PLW set aside its BOA initiative in late 2016 because of the impending return of abortion to Waco following a suspension since 2013.  PLW  monthly outreach at the most visible branch in Waco (1100 N Valley Mills Drive). The first outreach with signs held on the very visible sidewalks is Friday, April 23 from 11:30 to 1 PM. Pro-life foot soldiers will send a tremor from Waco all the way to BOA headquarters in Charlotte, NC. We have three primary goals for returning this arrow to our quiver. Our goals in a nutshell: First, we shine the light on and make BOA suffer consequences for their financial support of Planned Parenthood. Second, our presence in the public square will create a buzz through Central Texas, which will warn the business community to avoid entanglements with Planned Parenthood.  Third, we will send a message affirming our pro-life neighbors and challenging neighbors who support abortion. This attachment shows a touching exchange with a tearful young mom at our first BOA outreach in September of 2015.

     When Pro-Life Waco challenges an enabler of Planned Parenthood, we don’t go out full force unless the location and publicity situation gives us the upper hand. We love a highly visible target. I can think of no national business enabler of Planned Parenthood that is more vulnerable than Bank of America to outreach on their sidewalks.

     In April of 2016, John Pisciotta, Director of Pro-Life Waco, took the outreach initiative to the sidewalks of Bank of America headquarters in downtown Charlotte, NC. Read and view all about these three amazing days. Click here. Many pro-life foot soldiers of Charlotte joined John in the public square at the tallest building in downtown Charlotte.

     Bank of America is by no means the first Planned Parenthood enabler that Pro-Life Waco has successfully challenged with public square outreach.

     In 2004, Pro-Life Waco launched a local boycott of Girl Scout cookie sales, resulting in a national impact to this day. The boycott was motivated by multiple entanglements of the local Girl Scout council with Planned Parenthood. Within 3 weeks of boycott, the local Girl Scout council severed all ties with Planned Parenthood. And, watchdog groups arose around the nation that shine the light on the more-than-cozy relationship of Girl Scouts with Planned Parenthood. Read all about the 2004 "cookie battle in Waco" here on this web site. 

     In 2018, Pro-Life Waco, delivered three monthly protests at the sidewalks of of WACOAN magazine very close to the current Bank of America outreach location. WACOAN magazine was a Planned Parenthood enabler by accepting a full-page ad promoting abortion in December of 2017 when when Planned Parenthood Waco opened a new $4.3 million facility. PLW also contacted magazine advertisers to inform them about the WACOAN promotion of Planned Parenthood. WACOAN owners, through their attorney, agree to never again take Planned Parenthood advertising. Click here to check out Pro-Life Waco's 100% successful challenge to WACOAN magazine.

     Pro-Life Waco would love to have allies in other cities to ratchet up the pressure and the positive public square outreach. Contact John Pisciotta, Founding  Director of Pro-Life Waco if you are interested in delivering outreach at a Bank of American branch in your hometown.
254-644-0408 or [email protected]
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​Waco #BOAoutreach: branch at 1100  Valley Mills Dr.
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Austin #BOAoutreach: branch at 515 Congress Ave.
​​Everyone can participate:
1. Call national BOA and urge exclusion of Planned Parenthood from their matching grant program. (800) 218-9946 Call multiple times from different phone numbers. In their voice menu, choose 1 for matching grants program.
2. Visit with or call a local BOA branch manager or upper-level manager about their big Planned Parenthood problem. Do this whether you have an account at BOA or not.
3. Close one or more of your Bank of America accounts. During one #ProtestBOA outreach in Waco, a young lady came out of the branch with a big smile on her face and told us she had closed her accounts--and felt so good about it. We have also seen this in Austin
4. Here is the big one. Deliver a #ProtestBOA in your hometown. Pro-Life Waco will will help you with signs and flyers.

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​#ProtestBOA: Key Documents
​Large signs we will send free to you if you will deliver a weekly #ProtestBOA in your hometown.
Flyer used in #ProtestBOA events to educate the pubic and BOA customers on the need for BOA to stop donations to Planned Parenthood.
Daily Signal. Meet the 38 Companies That Donate to Planned Parenthood. 21July2015
FoxNews.com Coca-Cola, Ford, & Xerox deny claim they have matched employee donations to PP 28July2015

​BOA's Planned Parenthood donation program that #ProtestBOA seeks to terminate.
Pisciotta letter to BOA's national Charitable Giving Director
How PLW compelled a local Waco bank to sever ties with PP in 2011. We can prevail in #ProtestBOA in 2015
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Selected media on Bank of America outreach
--Saynsumthn Blog. Bank of America’s HDQ site of abortion protests over Planned Parenthood funds 17April2016
--LifeNews. Bank of America Donates Thousands to Planned Parenthood Abortion Business
15April2016
--LiveActionNews. Protests grow over Bank of America’s inclusion of Planned Parenthood in donation matching program 14April2016
--saynsumthn blog. Why a Texas pro-life group is protesting Bank of America. 17Nov2015
--LiveActionNews. Bank of Abortion? Why Protest Bank of America. 13Nov2015
--Texas Observer article about #ProtestBOA and counter-protest in Austin on 14Oct2015
--Facebook post in response to Texas Observer article
--saynsumthn blog. Pro-Life Group to Protest Bank of America over Planned Parenthood Support. 28Aug2015