Søren Holm

About the author: Søren Holm is a senior research fellow in the Department of Medical Philosophy and Clinical Theory, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

People who are cloned would be perceived as copies and would live their lives "in the shadow" of the original genetic donor. Human cloning is morally problematic for this reason.

One of the arguments that is often put forward in the discussion of human cloning is that it is in itself wrong to create a copy of a human being.

This argument is usually dismissed by pointing out that a) we do not find anything wrong in the existence of monozygotic twins even though they are genetically identical, and b) the clone would not be an exact...