Pinellas Park, FL - Mar 18, 2005 Operation Rescue vows to risk arrest to offer food and water to Terri Schiavo, who began her court- ordered starvation this afternoon.

Operation Rescue and a number of other individuals from faith-based organizations will peacefully attempt to offer Terri bread and water.

• Where: The Woodside Hospice, where Terri Schindler Schiavo lives, located at 6774 102nd Avenue N. (near 66th Street N and 102nd Avenue N) in Pinellas Park, Florida
• When: Saturday, March 19, at 11 AM
• Who: Operation Rescue and a number of other faith-based groups

""We will not stand idly by while an innocent woman is starved," said OR President Troy Newman. "Operation Rescue vows to peacefully intervene to offer Terri Schiavo bread and water. It is our duty as Christians to rescue those unjustly sentenced to death. That is a higher law from a Higher Judge than Judge Greer, and if that means we must spend time in jail, then it is the least we can do for this helpless young lady." - Troy Newman, President, Operation Rescue

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Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life organizations in the nation, and is on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in obedience to biblical mandates.