If you want to beat the devil

you have to know the truth

As I said at alicublog today, it is something to have been around for the beginning of Roe and then for the end. I was so young in 1973 that I recall taking seriously or at least patiently the hammy conservative objections to Roe — for example, that the arbitrariness of its viability timelines meant no viability date could be moral or rational — which I…