Live Action Films gets misleading description

In Elvia Malagon’s article “Local Planned Parenthood suspends employee” published last week and again in her follow-up story published Monday, “Child Services to take no legal action against Planned Parenthood employee,” she refers to Live Action Films as a “human rights organization.”  

This is quite a misleading description of a group who, in a recent press release, referred to themselves as a “right to life advocacy group” and, as a quick tour of their Web site would show, have thus far solely dedicated themselves to anti-abortion causes.

The AP Stylebook advises reporters to refer to such organizations as “anti-abortion,” and saying “human rights” instead has entirely different connotations. I think Ms. Malagon and the IDS editors might want to avoid this word choice in the future to steer clear of such connotations, which could be taken as promoting a particular agenda.

Camille Ward
IU junior