An emailer elequently stated her upset at the battle between the parents and the husband of Terri Schavio. There is a story in the Bible called "The Judgement of Solomon" that is told like this: Two mothers appeared before Solomon, each claiming that the baby held in the arms of one of them was hers. King Solomon then ordered a knife towards the baby. One woman immediately cried out, Solomon found this woman to be the true mother. This story was retold by Bertold Brecht in a play called The Caucasian Chalk Circle that went this way: The parable, concerns the struggle of two women over the custody of a child. The dispute between the governor's wife, who abandoned the child, and the young servant who saved the child and cared for him is settled by an eccentric judge who places the child in a chalk circle and declares that whichever woman can pull him from the circle will be granted custody. When the servant, not wanting to harm the child, lets the governor's wife have him, she is awarded the child, having demonstrated greater love than the natural mother.

I think it is clear in this case that the parents would let go......