As I write these words, a friend of mine is out on the highway, counting down the hours to the death of his unborn child. Before leaving, he wrote his (now former?) girlfriend a check for half the price of the procedure. He said it made him nauseous.



Philip Gold wrote the essay called How Many Ghosts? It was published in The Washington Times August 23, 1999. I hadn't seen it before. My thanks to Orrin Judd for the reference and link.