Thanks. I don't follow US non tech news and was genuinely puzzled about this.

That's a gross mischaracterization of what's going on. The fact is the web of tissue-thin Supreme Court decisions never should have taken the place of a law. Congress needs to get off its collective tukus and pass a law; their job as the Legislative Branch.

That they haven't done so is because they want this to be a wedge issue that drives people to go vote. The tenuous nature of privacy precedent was too useful as a political tool to be fixed.

Regardless, I do wish we'd grow thicker skins so that we don't waste time wringing our hands about ordinary words in puzzle games causing emotional trauma.

That’s about as fair as a characterisation of that debate as saying “people want to keep R vs. W because they love killing babies”. The simple difference between the sides is one thinks whatever it is that’s in the womb is a human life, the other does not. Both sides’ believe their positions are essentially rooted in compassion — one for the adult, one for (according to their understanding) the child.