Jewish groups called on James Dobson to rescind comments comparing stem-cell research to Nazi medical experiments. Dobson, who founded the evangelical political group Focus on the Family, told a radio show Wednesday that though embryonic stem-cell research may have the potential to produce positive findings, it should be condemned the way that Nazi “experiments” perpetrated on concentration-camp inmates during the Holocaust were condemned.
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