Personally, I do not feel comfortable with the idea of human clone’s of any kind. There are ethical, moral and medical concerns to say the least. I am child friendly and enjoy hanging out with the little people in my life. Having a child in today’s world is a responsibility and a privilege that should not be taken lightly. I do not have my own children, but find the concept that someone would clone their child ‘rather creepy’ . A child is a person too and one who will grow up and have to live the rest of their life, knowing that their parents wished they were somebody different. I wonder how this could be healthy for any person’s psyche and what their parent’s might say when the child becomes an adult and starts asking uncomfortable questions . I would feel a strong need to question any parent’s state of mind / psychological well-being that felt this could ever have a positive outcome.

Just because you have a ‘physical clone’ of your child, does not mean that they will develop and grow the same way in the womb, as you might hope or expect. I am 29 years old and have SpinaBifida (a neurological birth defect), I use a manual wheelchair to get around 24/7. As an adult with a physical disability, I know all too well how hard and frustrating life can be, when all doesn’t go as planned. What does a parent do if their ‘clone child’ is born physically disfigured/disabled or has an intellectual disability. This child may never be able to do the things that the previous child did, let alone to participate in the same way. If this child is born to fulfill their parent’s purpose and now they can not fulfill that purpose, will they just become another sad statistic in our country’s already failing foster care system.

I believe that you can try to make a person look a certain way before they are born, you can change their eyes and hair colour, you can even tamper with their genes but you can’t control who that person is inside or who they become. You can’t control if your child is born straight or gay. You can’t control whether your child lives or dies. You can’t control your child’s personality or sense of humour! It is not a parents job to decide who their child will be, but to guide them to be the person they are meant to be. Just as it should not be a child’s job to be somebody they are not. How could your ‘clone child’ ever feel they are enough for you, when you already expect them to be like someone else, before they have even taken their first breath.