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AILING. TAMMY FAYE MESSNER, 54, former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker; with colon cancer. Her current husband, Roe Messner, sentenced to prison last week for bankruptcy fraud, has prostate cancer...
...grow inside the mother's womb doesn't mean that it has life or even a self. The fetus, in fact, does not and should not even have any legal rights apart from the mother until it has reached a state of viability, defined by the Supreme Court in Roe v Wade as the ability of the fetus to survive on its own or with the aid of machinery if extracted from the womb. It is true, though, that because of technological advances in the coming decade or two, almost every fertilized egg will be able to develop independently outside...
...money. After six weeks on a regular show, God's gift to the mascara industry has quit. The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show, airing in almost half the country, proved to be too much for the former wife of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, especially while husband Roe Messner faces fraud charges...
Most troubling is the liberals' insistence that pro-life groups bracket their moral arguments from debate. They claim Roe v. Wade neither encourages nor discourages women from seeking abortions; it only grants women the freedom to make this decision for themselves...
...choice liberals criticize attempts to frame the debate in moral terms. But the Roe v. Wade decision itself makes moral distinctions. The nine Supreme Court justices ruled that abortion could be limited during the fetus' final trimester because the "potential life" has now reached their definition of "viability." Pro-life activists counter with morally-informed and no more arbitrary ages of their own: as early as 60 days (when all the child's organs are functioning) or as late as five months (when premature babies are born and survive with the aid of medical technology...