ABORTION/ELECTION/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump used an appearance at a high-profile religious gathering Thursday [2-7-19] to stress anti-abortion policies and appeal to conservative, Christian voters as the 2020 election campaign gets underway…That pledge, two days after Trump in his State of the Union address denounced late-term abortion, is part of his effort to re-energize evangelical voters, who have been among his most loyal supporters and will be vital to his re-election prospects. In that speech, Trump incorrectly claimed that Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., when discussing late-term abortions in which the infant is severely deformed or unable to survive after birth, had said ‘he would execute a baby after birth.’ Trump also had urged Congress to prohibit what he described as “the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother’s womb.’ The prospects of legislation restricting abortion rights passing a Democratic-controlled House appear remote.”
–Associated Press, “Trump Stresses Anti-Abortion Focus in Appeal to Evangelicals,” The New York Times online, February 7, 2019