As recently as last week Dr. James Dobson shared with my father, Howard Phillips, the influence Dad had in getting Dr. Dobson into politics. I thank the Lord for my dad’s influence with Dr. Dobson and I thank God for many heroic stands that Dr. Dobson has taken over the years. I do disagree with his decision to go back on his public oath that he would not support John McCain or any candidate that votes for the funding of abortions or supports abortions for any babies. I have great love for Dr. Dobson, but I do believe that this was a significant error. Now the American Right to Life Action is calling him to task for the flip flop.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sept. 3 /Christian Newswire/ — American RTL Action, the political 527 group, is exposing Focus on the Family’s Dr. James Dobson for violating his pledge in which he invoked the name of God by declaring that he is voting for John McCain....

On April 28, 1990 at the Washington D.C. Rally for Life Dr. Dobson stated, “I want to give a pledge to you on a political level... I have determined that for the rest of my life, however long God lets me live on this earth, I will never cast one vote for any man or woman who would kill one innocent baby.” (See video at ARTLaction.com.) James Dobson is violating this pledge by voting for John McCain for president, a Republican who has recently voted to authorize funding to kill some children by surgical abortion.

“Dr. Dobson repeated his broken pledge on his radio program in March of 1995 saying, “I am committed never again to cast a vote for a politician who would kill one innocent baby,” referring to the rape and incest ‘exceptions,’ “which are a window to the soul of a ‘pro-life’ candidate,” said ARTL Action president Steve Curtis.

“John McCain funds the killing of countless children,” said the group’s director of research, Darrell Birkey, “for example by voting to allocate monies on Oct. 27, 2005 for tax-funded surgical abortion if the baby’s father is a criminal, that is, a rapist.” The official Senate.gov website documents McCain’s Yea vote on the Health and Human Services Appropriations Public Law 109-149 and the Government Printing Office indicates that McCain’s vote authorized funding for abortion to kill an unborn child whose father is a criminal. As the law states, SEC. 507. (a) “funds are appropriated in this Act” that includes coverage of abortion, SEC. 508. (a) (1) “if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.”

“Dr. Dobson is openly violating the pledge he took before God,” said Birkey, “by voting for John McCain. Both the Sarah Palin distraction, and the candidate’s rhetoric to Rick Warren claiming he believes that human rights begin at conception, are belied by McCain’s long tolerance of chemical abortifacients and funding the dissection of the tiniest embryonic boys and girls.”