That pregnancy is not a game is something that young people have to know and for this we can start educating our children. But the fact that teenage pregnancy is part of a video game, called Pregnancy, has surprised me. And even more if we consider that abortion is part of his "argument."
Not surprisingly, Pregnancy is being controversial and echoing social networks with opinions of all kinds. The abortion debate is open in many countries and personally, I think that introducing the topic into a video game whose script was created "in an afternoon" is, at least, frivolous.
I would even say worrying, because its creators point out that the game has no objective of social criticism, when it comes to a serious matter, the more because it narrates the story of a 14 year old girl pregnant after a rape at the hands of a criminal.
According to their authors, the player does not have one hundred percent of the decision-making capacity of the character, but rather acts as an advisor. I could not see the development of the game but I could see a "trailer" in which questions are raised and the "intrigue" of the plot. What will the young woman do, abort or not?
The girl will go through moments of reflection, of "confession" to her relatives, of relationship with the environment ... And in the end, we do not know how the game will end, which can be opted for by any option or perhaps by which they have previously determined their creators
I hope the video game is not a plea in favor of any option, because it seems to me that the subject is complicated and serious enough to fall into that. We can already talk about sexual education in our children so that they have clear ideas about issues such as contraceptives or responsibility ...
But when we talk about a rape, how can you "play" with teenage pregnancy and what the pregnant woman has or doesn't have to do? I do not know if I am not used to video games, I imagine that there will be all kinds of content and some very violent but I just do not understand what purpose a product like this has.
The point is that unwanted teenage pregnancy as a result of rape does not seem like a videogame theme as we see in Pregnancy. To know what he will preach, to know how he can influence young people and I keep wondering how the subject can be treated so frivolously ...
