British doctors tested embryos for the breast cancer gene and only implanted those that do not have it. (Story here.) This is hailed as a victory for science and the battle against breast cancer:

Doctors say thousands of cases of breast cancer could be avoided by screening embryos using the technique called preimplantation diagnosis (PGD).

The only reason that breast cancer is avoided is because the people who would develop breast cancer are damned to die in a petri dish. This is not a method which alters the genes of an embryo so as to remove the abnormality; this is denial of life to those who may later get sick. In order to have embryos to screen for the breast cancer genes, those embryos - humans in the earliest and most vulnerable stage of life - must exist in the first place. Then, once found to be carrying a flawed gene, they are left to rot.

There is nothing but evil in the notion that  killing those who may become ill is tantamount to healing. This is not a victory over breast cancer; such triumphs are the province of those who developed breast MRIs, chemotherapy treatments, support groups, mammogram drives, and awareness campaigns, not those who prematurely end the lives of those who may be afflicted with the disease. In this world, with access to medical care that, every day, reduces the fatality of hereditary breast cancer, it is nothing short of evil to increase that fatality rate to 100%.

Breast cancer can be a particularly frightening disease because it strikes relatively early in life and strikes a part of a woman’s body that it is both characteristically feminine and valued by society. The war on breast cancer is founded on the idea that women are full and valuable members of civilisation, with or without perfect breasts - that a disease of the breast is not a disease that should be a death sentence. The move to eliminate afflicted women from society is an abrogation of every value of medicine, feminism, and civilisation.