Columnist Jeff Jacoby has an excellent article on the practical effects on the nation if the lawsuit dubbed Roe v. Wade for men succeeds. [I blogged about the suit when it was first filed here.]

The culture used to send a clear message to men in [Matthew] Dubay's position: Marry the mother and be a father to your child. Today it tells him: Just write a monthly check. Soon -- if this lawsuit succeeds -- it won't say even that. The result will not be a fairer, more equal society. It will be a society with even more abortion, even more exploitation of women, even more of the destructiveness and instability caused by fatherlessness.

Here's hoping that the lawsuit fails, but that it also shines renewed light on the evil of abortion and the shallowness of pro-choice arguments.