by Renee McGuinness, Vermont Family Alliance Policy Analyst

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNE) provided coloring pages for children at the Changemaker’s Summit held on April 11, 2026.

One coloring page features four black and white images; one of which is a rainbow with the statement, “Abortion is Gender-Affirming Care”, and another that states, “Your abortion is your decision.” Another coloring page features a maze-like graphic with multiple imagines of Intrauterine Devices (IUD’s). IUD’s can make the uterus a hostile environment for the implantation of an embryo.

The Changemaker’s Summit was a gathering of Vermont’s non-profit organizations that write the bills passed by our state legislature. The event was free and open to the public.

PPNNE not only has a heavy hand in shaping legislation, but also in writing Agency of Education Policy regarding LGBTQ+ sex education inclusivity in collaboration with Outright Vermont, a “Youth Support and Empowerment” NGO and Summit attendee. State Treasurer Mike Pieciak, who serves on the Board of Outright Vermont, was a keynote speaker at the Summit. Pieciak stated at a “policy forum” held in June 2025 that 20% of Vermont’s workforce works for a non-profit, and that 67% of those non-profits would become insolvent if federal funds were withdrawn.

These coloring pages target the hearts and minds of children that were born less than ten years ago, indicating that PPNNE has no age limit for which it would consider its propaganda to be inappropriate. The subliminal message to these tender young minds is that life has no value, and that it is acceptable to extinguish it for any reason.

Images of hearts, flowers, and rainbows in the coloring pages cannot disguise PPNNE’s hatred for human life and its rebellion against the reality of male and female.