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y, lead a less fruitful life, hindered by poor beginnings and ultimately be restricted to a lower caste of society. These reactions have been repeatedly seen in many different social areas including racism, and in opposition to gays and lesbians. These actions are inevitable as long as ignorance plagues society. People are generally fearful of that which they dont understand. This becomes particularly apparent when you examine the case of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, who is still receiving attention from the media 20 years after her birth (Burley, Harris paragraph 15). This is what Burley and Harris classified as the non-identity problem (paragraph 7). Unable to identify well with individuality in conjunction with the problem that society posits, the cloned child will be reduced to a state of mental rejection.In addition to this problem the clones will be oppressed by the demands, real or imagined, of the parents or genotype donors (Burley, Harris paragraph 3). Again a moral injustice can be charged against the individual being cloned, this time for not respecting the mental status of the cloned person. According to Soren Holm, cloned persons will be forced to live their lives in shadows of their genotype donors (Burley, Harris paragraph 20)....

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