June 28th, 2011
In 2005, a law was enacted in the State of California that banned kids from buying violent video games by imposing a &1000 fine on anyone who tries to sell these types of video games to minors. Their case was that multiple hours of this game desensitized adolescents to violence; making their overall behavior more aggressive. This case made it to Supreme Court and got rejected on a 7-2 split. One of the eight justices,
Justice Scalia stated that video games are supposed to be protected by their first amendment right- freedom of expression. So, under the first amendment, sales of these violent video games to minors are legal. Of coarse, the defenders of those against the sales enforced restrictions on the video games like labeling warnings of the violence.
This particular case relates to the
first amendment, that states that the government cannot infringe on the people's right to advertise, trade, but most importantly freedom of expression. By putting a label of warning of these violent video games deters some people away from the buying and selling of games. This relates to the process of
abortion because women are imposed with multiple restrictions before they can even be considered for getting one, an example is if a person is under 18, then parental consent must be applied.
Article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2011/06/30/AGikhmwH_story.html
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