A father is a father forever, even of a dead unborn child.

This week the House is scheduled to introduce the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Regardless of which camp you place your flag, everyone ought to be able to agree that “a baby born alive during an abortion must be afforded ‘the same degree’ of care that would apply ‘to any other child born alive at the same gestational age,’ including transportation to a hospital.”

But, of course, many/all anti-Life Legislators are so wedded to the Culture of Death they will distort this into a “ban on abortion.”

I have argued for years (and obviously I am hardly the only one) that there will come a day when as a culture we will recognize the enormity of the damage abortion has inflicted on women. A “choice”? In so many cases, women have no choice.

But what about the other victims of abortion? Siblings, for example, grandparents, aunts and uncles, to just begin to include the many people who are poorer for the loss of these children.

In a sense, it is deeply ironic that you can at least broach these secondary victims but not—not—even consider the impact on the fathers of these children.

More than anything else, the U.S. Supreme Court has shaped the role of men in abortion. The Court has held that a woman’s right not to procreate trumps a man’s right to procreate, making his involvement in the abortion decision irrelevant.

Abortion leaves indelible footprints in the texture of masculinity, in the recesses of a man’s heart, and in his reproductive history. A father is a father forever, even of a dead unborn child.