Which states debated same-sex marriage bills in 2003?
As a result, health care has become one of the sorest issues in the border states' debate over illegal immigration.
In the U.S., lawmakers in many states debated whether to require girls who entered sixth grade to be vaccinated with Gardasil.
But the department's appellate brief also recycled the flimsy argument that the law had a plausible purpose in trying to maintain the federal status quo while states debated the issue of same-sex marriage.
The comments came shortly after her European policy adviser, Uwe Corsepius, attended a summit near Brussels at which the foreign ministers of the EU's six founding states debated how member states should react if the UK leaves the union.
That proposal, which had been stalled by disagreements among member states, was revived earlier this year when states debated approval of an unpopular GM maize line.
Its proposals will be taken into account by the health minister before the plan is put forward for a States debate.
Deputy Jeremy Maçon, the chairman of the panel, said: "The scrutiny review is an opportunity for people to have their say on this important issue prior to the States debate.
Today, contraception is once again under fire, with a number of states debating laws allowing employers to deny women health insurance for birth control.
Just last week in New York, the Security Council did something unprecedented: it invited a child to address them - a 14-year-old former child soldier from Sierra Leone - as the Member States debated the issue of children and armed conflict.
But as social conservatives fall back on federalist arguments and state-by-state debates, the scenario sketched above is one they should at least keep in mind.
