The Democrats seem convinced, and are in any case trying to convince the country, that the president is going to assault the authority of Roe v. Wade, the shabbily reasoned decision of 1973 that gave a carte blanche to abortion on the ground of a woman's right to determine what goes on within her own body. They have amplified this issue, vital though it is, to personning the barricades for the female sex against the president, and defending it against chauvinism, servitude, serfdom, and concubinage.