"All it takes," said Crake "is the elimination of one generation. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever." (Atwood 2004, 223) .
Can this statement be true? Let us travel through a time when the human race, due to selfishness and greed, and an uncaring kind of care eliminate all but two men. These two men yearned to stop aging and in the process stopped life, as we know it to be in today's society. .
In our fight for life, and to create an ongoing human race, we struggle between the good and bad, moral and immoral. In this fight between people is the debate of abortion. In the beginning God created the world and offered it to man to enjoy, it was man's thoughts and temptations that led the world to become a place where evil lives amongst us. In the news we see hate crimes more so than acts of love. We do see a form of an act of love when we see protestors marching for the right of life to allow a fetus to grow and mature to become a born child who will allow the human race to go on. Philosopher's argue our "ethical" decisions, stating we have "lost our way" to in society. We base our ethics on the ever changing needs of society. However, they question if this is due to unchanging reference points or because we have forgotten them in the name of "progress." (Leber 2001) .
In the Bible it states, "though shall not murder" (Exod. 20:13), morally we know murder of anyone is not right, we especially deem this wrong in the terms of murdering an innocent victim. The argument that grows out of the topic of abortion is at what point the fetus is a person. Well, if you no longer procreate due to the killing of fetuses, the human race as we know it will die. Therefore, if a fetus is born to be a child, and we are unable to bring new humans to earth, without having a person as a fetus first; then by all accounts, this may prove a fetus is a person.
