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I fully agree with your estimate of what marriage is and should be. You've made the argument for why MS should have NO say in what happens to Terri.

Facts, he is still legally married to her yet is living with another woman. This "union" has produced two children.

Part of the marriage vows is to love, honor, cherish your spouse in sickness and in health. I see no honor is having children with another woman why your spouse is sick. I do not believe anyone would argue you are cherishing your spouse by having an affair. I believe it is impossible to be in love (sexual love here as between man and woman) with TWO people at one time.

MS has given up his rights as a husband and should allow Terri's family to make decisions for her life. He has moved on with his life, now it's time for him to get our of Terri's.

I think the only real course of action for the parents at this time is to work out a divorce on her behalf due to abandonment by her husband. Hopefully an acknowledge divorce proceeding by the courts will cause the legal system to place a straining action on his ability to proceed with her starvation death. This may only be temporary if the courts then decide there isn't a justified reason to grant further hearings or the divorce itself. The last resort for the parents would be to sue him in civil court in an attempt to scare in into believing that if he carries through with the starvation death he may end up bankrupt thereby destroying his new life so granting the parents legal custody would be the safer option for him at that point.