"Keiko was not one of our kind but nonetheless he was still one of us,"
It was stories like this that turned me from pro-choice to pro-life. These people will get together to self-indulgently "wipe away tears" over the death of an animal, who they consider "one of us."
The same people will meet again tomorrow to "celebrate" a woman's right to end the life of her unborn baby. Apparently the whale has more humanity to them than the baby.