Former Vice President Mike Pence has publicly criticized his former boss, President Donald Trump, for saying states’ rights should be respected when it comes to abortion, calling it a “slap in the face” to the pro-life lobby.
As recently as June 2022, Pence praised the Supreme Court for “returning the question of abortion to the states,” saying they had “reaffirmed the right of the American people to govern themselves at the state level in a manner consistent with their values and aspirations.”
Now, however, he is attacking Trump for affirming his support for states’ rights, characterizing the America First leader’s position that the federal government should not seize the power to set abortion limits as a “retreat on the Right to Life.”
By returning the question of abortion to the states and the people, this Supreme Court has righted a historic wrong, and reaffirmed to right of the American people to govern themselves at the state level in a manner consistent with their values and aspirations.
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) June 24, 2022
Pence is not the only Trump supporter turned Never Trumper to change their position on abortion to attack the former president.
Jenna Ellis, a former legal advisor to Trump, has also attacked his pro-states’ rights stance as “weak“, but previously argued that leaving abortion to the states was the “constitutionally correct answer.”