Former Vice President Mike Pence sharply criticized former President Donald Trump for saying that abortion policy should be left to the states and declining to back a national abortion restriction.

“President Trump’s retreat on the Right to Life is a slap in the face to the millions of pro-life Americans who voted for him in 2016 and 2020,” Pence said on X. “However much our Republican nominee or other candidates seek to marginalize the cause of life, I know pro-life Americans will never relent until we see the sanctity of life restored to the center of American law in every state in this country.”