Land, Gibbs in two-part documentary on Terri Schiavo

By staff - Jun 6, 2008 - 1

AGOURA HILLS, Calif.—Two thirty-minute television programs to air June 12 and 19 will explore the debate surrounding the death of Terri Schiavo and feature, among others, Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and David Gibbs, head of the Florida-based Christian Law Association.

Joni Eareckson Tada, whose ministry, The Christian Institute on Disability—a division of Joni and Friends International Disability Center—has produced the programs which will be broadcast globally via Trinity Broadcasting Network. Terri Schiavo is the severely disabled Florida woman who died of starvation and dehydration in 2005 after her feeding tube was removed as a result of a court order.

This article is continued on the Web site of the Florida Baptist Witness.

This excerpt is reprinted from the June 5, 2008, issue of the Florida Baptist Witness.

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1 On Jun 9th, 2008, at 8:39am, Mae Harris wrote:

Hearts are growing cold!

She was no longer of any benefit to her husband and even though her mother and father begged to care for her, the cold hearts of the judge and the husband put her to death. My heart went out to the mother and father who begged for her life.

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