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Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson is under attack from a coalition of evangelical Protestant and Roman Catholic groups.

According to the Washington Post, Dobson and other national anti-abortion leaders are being accused of "building an 'industry' around relentless fundraising and misleading information."

The dispute stems from the Supreme Court's April 18 decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. It "reopened an old split between incrementalists who support piecemeal restrictions and purists who seek a wholesale prohibition on abortions," the Post says.

In a full-page ad that was published in May in two newspapers, the heads of five groups said the Supreme Court decision was even "more wicked" than Roe v. Wade because it is "not a ban, but a partial-birth abortion manual" that affirms the legality of late-term abortions "as long as you follow its guidelines," the ads said. "Yet, for many years you have misled the Body of Christ about the ban, and now about the ruling itself."

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  Dobson was accused of of misleading Christians by applauding the high court ruling.

A Focus on the Family spokesman said that Dobson would not comment.

Focus on the Family's vice president, Tom Minnery, told the Post that Dobson was right to rejoice over the ruling "because we, and most pro-lifers, are sophisticated enough to know we're not going to win a total victory all at once. We're going to win piece by piece."

Signers of the ad included Brian Rohrbough, president of Colorado Right to Life; the Rev. Bob Enyart, a Christian talk radio host and pastor of the Denver Bible Church; and the heads of the American Life League, Operation Rescue/Operation Save America, and the Catholic group Human Life International.

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