Great News! Right?

A breakthrough in breast cancer treatment:

Studies in the Oct. 20, 2005, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine indicate that Herceptin, a drug already shown to prolong survival in patients with advanced breast cancer, can also cut in half the recurrence of a common form of early breast cancer.
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"The results are simply stunning,'' Gabriel Hortobagyi, a breast cancer specialist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, said in an editorial in the Journal. The tests "show highly significant reductions in the risk of recurrence, of a magnitude seldom observed."

That's terrific! We should all be celebrating that kind of news! Right? Right? Wrong.

However, one group not enthusiastic about the news is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), because Genentech uses animals in its drug testing, a requirement for FDA approval.
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"Caring people wouldn't think of offering up their beloved companion animals for hideous experiments," the site says, recommending that people make donations to organizations that "support cutting-edge non-animal studies" and not those "which fall back on cruel, archaic and unreliable animal tests."

It's truly amazing where people will go in devotion to an ideology. Like the "all-abortions-all-the-time" feminists who have been driven to supporting late term partial birth abortions and opposing parental notification for abortions on 13 year olds, the "animals are people too" crowd finds itself on the bad news side of a human trial of a treatment that will evidently save thousands of women.