That there was so little debate about that decision surprised those who knew the couple's history.
Last week, there was a Web's worth of debate about the decision of The New York Post to publish a salaciously headlined photo of a man just before he was struck and killed by a subway train in New York.
But so far there has been little public debate about the decision to privatise the running of the state's hospitals, which is part of a national trend to try to outsource and reduce the ever-increasing costs of healthcare.
The country's new acting intelligence chief said Wednesday that American intelligence agencies should not be blamed if there was inadequate debate about the decision to go to war against Iraq.
There has been a long debate about the decision to use ground troops, who only moved in to southern Lebanon in large numbers towards the end of the conflict.
To outsiders like me, it seemed as if a high-profile firm had made a decision about its leadership; that its employees and users had engaged in vigorous debate about that decision; and that the company had decided to reverse it.
"Do we not owe them what comfort and protections that are possible in these challenging times?" With this week's brief appearance of the fake sanctuary city sign, it's clear that the debate about the decision is far from over.
"The point is to provide a critical guide to those futures, and to spark debate about the decisions that will produce those futures".
If Molly were closer to death, for instance, would her parents have terminated the pregnancy and used stem cells from Adam's fetal liver to save her? "We know people will do anything to save their child," says Jeffrey Kahn, an ethicist at the University of Minnesota, where there was much debate about the decisions of the transplant team at the hospital next door.
There must be a public debate about a decision that will affect so many lives.
