| An open future, whether for a child or an adult, | | | | future of these children. |
| implies the freedom to choose one's own | | | | Parents may clone an already born child in the |
| interests, activities, occupations, and careers. | | | | hope of having a second child who is exactly like |
| Possessed of an open future a person is free to | | | | the first. The first child may be a star athlete or |
| choose her friends, colleagues, and romantic | | | | have the perfect combination of skin, hair, and |
| partners, as well as to choose her hometown, | | | | eye color. The first child may be a piano prodigy |
| political affiliations, and path in life. | | | | or possess a beautiful singing voice. The parents |
| Many people have never had such blessings. | | | | fully expect the second child to reproduce the |
| Persons who lived in a dictatorial society, such as | | | | characteristics and qualities of the first. |
| the former Soviet Union, did not have an open | | | | As such, an open future is denied to the new |
| future. In China, where families are only permitted | | | | child. The second child's future is already mapped |
| one child, a person's future falls very short of | | | | out for her by her parents. She is expected to |
| being an open one. In failed states such as | | | | have the same interests and qualities as her sibling |
| Somalia, no one has an open future. In nations | | | | from who she has been cloned. Further, she is not |
| experiencing ongoing religious warfare such as | | | | valued for herself. Rather she is valued merely as |
| Iraq, very few can secure the privilege of an | | | | a copy of a child who is already deemed a |
| open future. The fortunate citizens of the United | | | | success. If she tries to forge her own identity she |
| States have the very concept of open future | | | | may lose her parents love and support. She may |
| enshrined in their nation's formative document, the | | | | choose autonomously but does so in the face of |
| Declaration of Independence - "We hold these | | | | grave potential loss. |
| truths to be self-evident, that all men are created | | | | Alternatively, parents may choose to clone a |
| equal, that they are endowed by their Creator | | | | relative or friend whose physical characteristics |
| with certain unalienable Rights, that among these | | | | and occupation they admire. They might select |
| are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." | | | | DNA-to-be-cloned from an array of celebrity DNA. |
| Parents are expected to provide for the possibility | | | | In all cases they intend to have a child who will |
| of their children's open future. Parents hold the | | | | mimic the qualities of that person from whom the |
| future autonomy of their children in trust and are | | | | child is cloned. Opponents of reproductive cloning |
| expected to honor this precious commitment. | | | | believe that if this technology is permitted to |
| Opponents of reproductive cloning argue that | | | | come in the front door, an open future for such |
| parents of children born via cloning technology will | | | | children will go out the window. |
| act in ways that will violate the right to an open | | | | |