Traditional love is given by encouraging and loving the child to no extent; however, because clones are generally considered objects or "second-class human beings (Keeler 46), the cloned child is instead only looked upon as a standard. "It depends on how the standard is used and regarded by those directly involved. If it is used by parents in a loving and nurturing manner, it can help children develop their autonomy- (Strong 192). However, cloning is not wrong because they are expected to exceed a standard "it is wrong because they are a standard. They live a constant "life in the shadows,"" where there will not be a day-by-day comparison but rather the clone is "forced to perform a partial re-enactment of the life of somebody else- (Holm 37). This concept differs from being compared to siblings because "at every point of the clone's life, there would be someone who had already lived that life,"" (Holm 36) with whom the clone would be compared to. This "life in the shadows- violates the development of living his or her own life, causing the child to regard his or herself as nothing more than a copy of someone else (Strong 192), which is wrong because they deserve to come into a world where people would respect their individuality. Regardless of the how the child was created into this world, every child has the right to be appreciated and loved as an individual and not be deprived of two parents. .
Controversy has spurred around the confusion of what a clone really is. There are still debates of whether or not a clone is a human being; it is arguable that a clone is like a younger twin (Holm 36). Twins are two different people who have almost identical appearances but by mind and soul, through different experiences and environments, one twin will not be exactly the same as the other. Therefore, a clone is considered to be a unique individual, a delayed identical twin (Madigan 40).
