The Supreme Court of the United States today annulled the federal right to abortion amidst great protests.
As feared, the United States Supreme Court today overturned Roe v. Wade, a 50-year-old lawsuit ruling that the US Constitution protects a pregnant woman’s freedom to have an abortion. The matter has polarized the society of the federal republic in recent weeks, and that includes several video game companies, with a resounding controversy in PlayStation.
We put you in a situation. In mid-May, it was reported in the press that Insomniac Games was interested in publicly support the right to abortion. However, PlayStation ordered silence, in pursuit of the diversity of opinions, both from its employees and from its consumers, even if that means not always agreeing. Now, the situation seems to have changed and the authors of Marvel’s Spider-Man have come out in defense of reproductive freedom and autonomy.
“We are human beings who make video games. Reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy are human rights“, they express on Twitter from Insomniac. At the moment no other statement has been issued by PlayStation. Nor other large companies in the sector, although it is hoped that the letters in defense of the right to abortion will arrive by dropper in the next few hours.
According to CNN, the court’s decision means that such right is now to be determined by the states, unless Congress acts. But until then, at least 26 regional governments are expected to override or restrict the aforementioned right.
Despite his silence a few weeks ago, PlayStation did make a donation to the Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP), and assured that it would launch an initiative to provide financial assistance to workers who must travel due to the ban. From Bungie this position of closing ranks in the internal studies of PlayStation did not like it, assuring the parents of Destiny that there will never be a muzzle that prevents them from speaking.
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