Terri Schiavo's faith rights must be protected

CLEARWATER, Fla. (BP)--Citing Terri Schiavo's right to freely exercise her religious faith, her parents' lawyer has added a new twist to the case by arguing that removing the 40-year-old disabled woman's feeding tube would be in direct violation of her religious beliefs.

The motion by attorney Pat Anderson draws on a speech by Pope John Paul II, leader of the Roman Catholic Church worldwide. Terri Schiavo would "not want to commit a sin of the gravest proportions by foregoing treatment to effect her own death in defiance of her religious faith's express and recent instruction to the contrary," the motion argues.

A resolution on euthanasia adopted by messengers to the 1992 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis also is cited in the motion.
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