Uhh.

Most of the major corporations are pro-choice (mostly keep it hush though because Republicans are retaliating at anyone who steps out of line) because it affects their employees, it's not about politics, it's something that literally affects them. That is why companies like Microsoft and others have pledged to assist employees with expenses should they need to travel out of state for an abortion.

Sony isn't really taking a side here either way, they're pledging to match a donation which Insomniac Games wanted to do, only $100k in total, they can just as easily match a donation to a pro-life organisation and on top of this, they're banning their employees from even mentioning the donation or retweeting it, they're also banning their individual studios from making any statement whatsoever, they're very much trying to sit on the fence on the situation.

Bit ironic that the same folk who constantly complain about freedom of speech being taken away are perfectly okay with Sony restricting the freedom of speech of their individual employees and studios on an issue which affects their employees. It's also ironic that the same group are suddenly pro "big government" (in this case, taking away the bodily rights of women).

But anyway, this is an issue which affects corporations because at the end of the day, corporations have human beings in them, that is why they're involved in the issue so it's silly to say they should stay out of the issue, although at the end of the day, the same corporations donate to both Democratic and Republican candidates.

I actually think this is because Americans hate government taking actions to fix social issues. In countries where people are used to see government taking social responsibility (which of course demands higher taxes) they don't expect companies commitment to do what is government problem. The average american seems to believe the state should be as small as possible, and people should take care of their lives by their own as we can see by how much USA citizens refuse to take vaccines only because they distrust state policies

Just my random observations of course 

The same group who's now supposedly big government, isn't big government and never has been, because they weren't for RvW in the first place. It's big government and the pressure they put on the unbiased, neutral, judges to make it so, and it looks like part of that is what's needed to undo it. The Democrats have complete control of all 3 branches do they not?

How much money is Sony or MS, etc, donating to Weight Watchers? How much more are they going to be paying their overweight underpaid employee's so they can afford healthier food? How much extra time are they going to give up per week, paid, so those employee's can hit the gym and exercise, especially during crunch time? What about when some of the healthy fit employee's complain?

They are corporations who care about their employee's (health), aren't they?

Maybe big corporations should just make sure they offer what their employee's need to do their job at work and stay out of their personal lives. Offer worthy products, not personal advice. If an employee's personal life is negatively impacting their job, figure it out or time for a new workplace.

A buddy of mine has a saying. Big government + big corporations = big babies. Looks as though no babies may be perfectly interchangeable.

If this is Sony's stance, that's fine, just don't try and hide it. The fact that they did begs the question, why, if it's what the majority wants or what's best?

But it's fine to ban abortion and take away human rights from women.

I don't even know where to start with that comparison, it's a joke, right? Lol.

Overweight =/= Pregnancy: I don't want to bother with this too much cause it's not alike at all but I'll run through those questions; Employees can choose what food they spend their pay on, being overweight is not necessarily unhealthy (obesity is) and that stuff depends more on your blood pressure, blood sugar, etc. Sure they can be often linked but someone who is overweight may still be healthy otherwise internally, a skinny person could be just as unhealthy, the employees can work out in their own time, Microsoft & Sony aren't working their employees 24/7.

And lastly, Microsoft does actually offer assistance on this stuff, not only with their in-house gym facilities but also stuff like this.

Pick your favorite way to stay fit. We will reimburse you up to $1,200 per year for employee-only wellness-related expenses that help you get and stay fit physically, emotionally, and financially. You can use those funds for anything from gym memberships or fitness classes to services like meditation programs, massage, weight-loss program fees, caregiver support, financial advising, and debt management.

You do know that many US corporations offer health insurance too, right? Not to mention all the different mental help services offered, a person may be overweight due to something going on mentally and Microsoft offers help for that, not all though are overweight due to mental health issues but should they also stay out of that as someone's health is their private life? Lol.

Either way, a persons weight can change, being pregnant can't if abortion is banned and being pregnant more often than not has a much larger physical and mental effect on someone's body than being overweight does, this really shouldn't have to be explained...Someone being overweight can usually easily perform their job at a tech company still but someone being pregnant often has a big physical and mental impact on them, they're literally growing another human in their body, being pregnant would affect a persons ability to work far more than being overweight in the tech industry, it ain't even close.

Corporations do offer what their employees need to do their job at work and that includes making sure that their employees are healthy and happy, a happy employee, more often than not, is a good one and one who stays at the company, I for one am happy that our companies do actually make an effort to care about their employees (although, some have a lot more work to do) rather than the slave labour we see in places like China.

Not to mention, in the tech industry especially, right now there's a lot of talk about there being a talent shortage and companies are being very competitive with each other in taking that talent recently which is even more reason why companies should be looking out for their employees wellbeing, taking the stance of "if you're unhappy, go and find another job!" is a sure fire way to cause someone like Microsoft to lose key staff to their rivals...Not a very smart way to run a business.

I know I only spoke about Microsoft but I'm confident that Sony/Nintendo offer a lot of the same stuff too, as do many tech industry companies, and actually, a big selling point about Microsoft has always been about their very generous employee benefits which includes the wide coverage health insurance they offer. If they stayed out of it and didn't offer help in that stuff then they would quickly become a less desirable place to work at.

The original justices that were in favor of Roe vs Wade were all appointed by Republicans except for 1.

No, not even close. They charitably have control of 2 branches, and more realistically have control of 1.5.

The Supreme Court is 6/3 with a major conservative advantage.

The White House is Democrats obviously. 
The House of Representatives is Democrats, but the Senate is mostly 50/50, with 2 Democrats tending to vote along with Republicans.

Some of these corporations have cafeterias on site, and some of them even hire registered dietitians to help out with some of this.

A lot of companies also have health incentives. Extra pay, or they can cut your health costs if you show that you're exercising or making healthier eating choices.

Even smaller companies do a lot of these things, it's even more common at big tech companies like Sony and MS.

They hid it because it's extremely controversial in the US, and other places as well.

Disney is getting screwed over by Florida Republicans, because they decided to back off from supporting some bill that they were previously found to be supporting. Which is very ironic from the party complaining about cancel culture and big government.

Their affiliation means nothing. We vote for people to make policies happen, we are not making a sports team. Personally I'm in favor of political parties being dissolved. 

Corporations should support their employees and they should support things that are moral.  

Republicans have always been big government and for cancel culture. The difference has always been what their preferred government looks like and what things they're cancelling. They only claim to be small government because they don't believe government should help people, they have never taken issue with police and military funding or arresting people for marijuana. 

It has nothing to do with "nobody running against each other". I'm talking about how they run against each other. Instead of running on being a Democrat, run on the explicit policies that they would support. 
Or at the very least, the US government should change how it selects politicians, as the majority system is largely set up for two teams.

Affiliation isn't completely meaningless, it gives us an easy idea of what kinds of policies each person has, but that doesn't necessarily hold up.

In some cases, the affiliation is completely misleading, because people are relatively free thinking individuals and not binary political creatures. Especially difficult on the Democratic side, which tends to have a lot of people that are both very left wing all the way to moderately conservative.

I'm making a distinction between directly helping people like welfare and other government operations that indirectly help people. 

Republicans tend to support those other government operations like police, prisons, military, etc. And on the contrary it's not that those things aren't supported by Democrats, but they tend to feel that the current system is excessive. Focusing prisons on rehabilitation instead of solely punishment. A lot of other countries have had a lot of success with that. Stop imprisoning people for marijuana use, treat those people as people that need help and not punishment. Instead of giving police officers tanks, and propaganda that scares them into using them, make them focus on de-esculation training.

It is not the case that democrats want to shut down police departments, despite the claims that they already did, leading to a crime rise.

Some of the frequently used examples, actually increased police funding:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/01/28/fact-check-police-funding-not-linked-homicide-spikes-experts-say/9054639002/

And no, Republicans aren't cancelling things that lead to bigger government. They're boycotting stores, banning books, and school lessons that dare talk about black people being disadvantaged in this country, or gay people existing.

Affiliation isn't meaningful by itself. Again, we're not electing a sports team. We should be electing for policies. 

As I said before, Democrats cover everyone from actual leftists to people that are moderately conservative. So affiliation is meaningless for Manchin and Sinema.  

@bold, tell that to ICE and border walls that Republicans are pushing, despite local government wishes.

These two reports about Sony were private instances. These were two emails that were sent to employees, that got leaked to the press. They weren't public announcements.

And they didn't really flip flop. They said to respect differences of opinions, and then they matched a donation, which they match pretty much any donation.

This right there is what a company need to do: support their employees.