The issue of a clone’s identity poses a problem for future
clones. What is their purpose? Many individuals have been perceived as wanting a clone to live the life that they didn’t have,
bringing back lost memories of relatives, and being responsible for designer
children. Cloning is no more than a possibility for people to explore themselves.
They try to compensate for lost time through their future clones, a condition
that people may have seen in parents that force their children to live the
dreams that they were unable to live. The individual is being violated of
a “right to an open future,” (Genetic Encore 2). The clone is given a
model to live by and whether or not they are able to achieve the act of living
up to this example, is harsh and detrimental. If any person were asked to
live up to the expectations of their parents, completely and whole-heartedly,
most people would feel angry and depressed of the thought. Their lives would
be hampered and constantly measured according to their natural human example.
The clone has no individuality as technology has presented them. 
The titles that are given to them alone,
will give them a lasting stigma as they go on through life. Being called children
of unnatural birth, test-tube babies, or freaks of nature, a mere carbon-copy,
or a clone, will prove to induce many psychological problems. The use of
the word clone in this paper is enough to degrade their status from human
to animal. To add, cloning can also be called: “asexual
reproduction,” (Genetic Encores 3), and so the issue of “who is the parent,” (Genetic
Encores 3), is also raised. Take children of foster homes, or
orphanages and consider the malice, confusion and enmity they feel for not
having parents, and apply the situation to a clone with no exact parents,
because they were actually a cell taken from a sister or cousin?Being born a clone is one thing, but living as a clone is an idea that has not been clearly thought through. What rights would they have and what options would they be given in life to succeed? They have the right to life, but they also have the right to death and being born normal. So if they are born with defects, what are they to do, slap their parents with a legal suit for giving them life? Technically, it is possible because of the grief the parents will have laid out for the child as they were to grow up. Similar to how minorities were and still are treated in this country, their life value will be less because they are not natural. Take a bag of jelly beans, the more of one color there is, the less likely for us to pay attention to them. When we run out of that particular one, we can just make more. Science is creating a whole other class of people by trying to create clones and eventually, it may even spur ethnic wars between natural and cloned humans.
Living with the fact that you are just a genetic creation of a group of scientist is not a comforting thought. These are only the mental repercussions that must be thought about concerning cloning. The physical cons to cloning are even worse.
