From Citizen Link update:
Focus on the Family Action Chairman James C. Dobson, Ph.D., is devoting a special edition of his Friday radio broadcast to answer liberal critics who have lambasted him for his opposition to science that relies on the destruction of human life. [See Jill’s blog entry yesterday.]
Dobson was assailed today for comments he made on his broadcast earlier this week comparing destructive embryonic stem-cell research to Nazi “science.”
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo, co-sponsor of a bill to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, issued a statement condemning Dobson, while Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman sent a letter calling on Dobson to apologize and “immediately repudiate” his remarks….
“What part of ‘We condemn what the Nazis did and it was horrible’… don’t they get?” Dobson asked. “The truth is these are ultraliberals who want the legal approval — and the federal money to experiment on unborn life — and don’t care a whit about unborn life at any age.”
In a statement, Focus on the Family Action Senior Bioethics Analyst Carrie Gordon Earll — who will appear on Friday’s broadcast with Dobson — said the analogy comparing the Nazi human experiments conducted during WWII and today’s embryonic stem-cell research is “historically and ethically accurate and appropriate.”
“If any apologies are due,” she explained, “it’s the advocates of destructive research using embryonic humans who should be apologizing to their fellow members of the human family. It is never morally or ethically acceptable to intentionally destroy one human in the hopes of saving another — regardless of the age and location of the human to be sacrificed for research.”
To listen to the show on the Internet, go here.
See action info on page 2….

Action opportunities from Citizen Link:
If you’d like to let Foxman and DeGette — as well as Michael Huttner, executive director of a Colorado group called ProgressNow.org — know what you think of their efforts to smear Dr. Dobson, you can send one e-mail message to all three by visiting the CitizenLink Action Center.
You also can call each of them via telephone at the numbers below:
• ADL National Director Abraham Foxman, 212-885-7707
• Rep. Diana DeGette, 202-225-4431
• ProgressNow.org Executive Director Michael Huttner, 303-931-4547
To learn more about stem-cell research and what’s really at stake, we recommend the following articles:
• “What the Media Won’t Tell You About Stem Cell Research”
• “Adult Stem Cells: It’s Not Pie-in-the-Sky”
Entire press release excerpted on page 1:
August 4, 2005
Dr. Dobson Answers Critics Over Stem-Cell Comments
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Focus on the Family Action chairman will address politically motivated attacks over his stand against destructive embryonic stem-cell research in Friday broadcast.
Focus on the Family Action Chairman James C. Dobson, Ph.D., is devoting a special edition of his Friday radio broadcast to answer liberal critics who have lambasted him for his opposition to science that relies on the destruction of human life.
Dobson was assailed today for comments he made on his broadcast earlier this week comparing destructive embryonic stem-cell research to Nazi “science.”
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo, co-sponsor of a bill to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, issued a statement condemning Dobson, while Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman sent a letter calling on Dobson to apologize and “immediately repudiate” his remarks.
“While reasonable, decent people may legitimately differ in their views of embryonic stem-cell research,” Foxman said, “it is a gross distortion — and an offensive misuse of the Holocaust — to compare stem-cell research to hideous barbarities of Nazi pseudoscience.”
Dobson countered that his statement was being “spun like a top by those who don’t care about unborn life.”
He said the original comment —”Experimentation on the blastocytes, which are fertilized eggs, has a Nazi-esque aura to it” — was being taken out of context by those who support embryonic stem-cell research.
“What part of ‘We condemn what the Nazis did and it was horrible’ . . . don’t they get?” Dobson asked. “The truth is these are ultraliberals who want the legal approval — and the federal money to experiment on unborn life — and don’t care a whit about unborn life at any age.”
In a statement, Focus on the Family Action Senior Bioethics Analyst Carrie Gordon Earll — who will appear on Friday’s broadcast with Dobson — said the analogy comparing the Nazi human experiments conducted during WWII and today’s embryonic stem-cell research is “historically and ethically accurate and appropriate.”
“If any apologies are due,” she explained, “it’s the advocates of destructive research using embryonic humans who should be apologizing to their fellow members of the human family. It is never morally or ethically acceptable to intentionally destroy one human in the hopes of saving another — regardless of the age and location of the human to be sacrificed for research.