Equal Protection

At the conclusion of a high-school ice hockey game at the Boston Garden last March, high-spirited fans tossed a few tons of debris into the air and onto the ice. A few days later, newspapers reported that amid the crumpled paper bags, greasy napkins, programs and hot dog wrappers, custodians had found a dead fetus.

It would be idle to speculate on how it came to be there. But the fact that it was there should come as no surprise at a time of extraordinary public and private ambiguity as to the moral and legal status of the unborn child.

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At the conclusion of a high-school ice hockey game at the Boston Garden last March, high-spirited fans tossed a few tons of debris into the air and onto the ice. A few days later, newspapers reported that amid the crumpled paper bags, greasy napkins, programs and hot dog wrappers, custodians had found a dead fetus.

It would be idle to speculate on how it came to be there. But the fact that it was there should come as no surprise at a time of extraordinary public and private ambiguity as to the moral and legal status of the unborn child.