“With lives on the line, SBA Pro-Life America and the pro-life grassroots will work tirelessly to defeat President Biden and extreme congressional Democrats,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.

The statements are the latest demonstration of Trump’s grip on the Republican party, which has stuck by him even when his policies and pronouncements deviate from GOP orthodoxy. The former president has sought to neutralize abortion as a campaign issue after Democrats have used it successfully across the country in local and national elections. He has repeatedly said winning the 2024 election is paramount, and he reminded voters again on Monday of the stakes.

Alongside Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life, the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Family Research Council, National Right to Life and CatholicVote, reiterated their commitment Monday morning to electing Trump. The comments represent a shift among some in the anti-abortion movement’s approach during the GOP presidential primary, in which advocates focused on nudging candidates to take more restrictive positions on abortion.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, one of the most politically powerful and well-funded anti-abortion groups, said it was “deeply disappointed” in the former president’s decision not to embrace a 15-week federal limit. But the organization isn’t following through on plans it announced last year to oppose any presidential candidate who “refuses to embrace” such a policy.

Instead, Dannenfelser blamed the political advisers who have cautioned Republicans against pursuing federal restrictions.

“The political consulting class who lives in fear of this issue are destroying the Republican Party and leaving many base voters without a home,” Dannenfelser told POLITICO. “They advise against obvious strategy, put their heads in the sand, ignore opportunity and principle, failing to recognize that even pro-choice voters think 15 weeks for the nation is a reasonable minimum standard like most of Europe.”

CatholicVote president Brian Burch said leaving the issue to states was “not sufficient,” but slammed Biden and added that the organization is confident “a Trump administration will be staffed with pro-life personnel committed to pro-life policies.”

“Pro-life voters have only one option in November,” Burch said.

Trump still has tremendous political capital with abortion opponents. He appointed three of the justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade and has not ruled out using executive authority to curb abortion access even in blue states.

Anti-abortion rights groups view federal restrictions as key to counteracting the broad abortion protections that blue states — such as California, Illinois and New York — have leaned on since the fall of Roe as they have sought to become havens for abortion access. But they appear to be acquiescing to Trump’s pitch that winning elections is more important than moving the needle on abortion policy.

The more hardline anti-abortion rights groups are stressing their support for Trump, too. Students for Life, which would like to see a total abortion ban at the federal level, lauded Trump for “celebrating ‘the ultimate joy in life’ — children and family” and said that it looks forward to working “together to restore the culture of life stripped away by the national Democratic Party and their leadership.”

The group praised Trump for balking at a 15-week limit, which they believe would have made it harder to further restrict abortion at the federal level down the road.

“That doesn’t mean that we like everything Trump said, but we can work with it,” said Kristi Hamrick, chief policy strategist for Students for Life, in an interview.

The Faith and Freedom Coalition, overseen by longtime Republican strategist and Trump ally Ralph Reed, still plans to mobilize tens of millions of evangelical voters to support Trump, even as it said it will continue to work to pass abortion restrictions at both the state and federal levels.

“Donald Trump was the most pro-life president in American history, and we are grateful for all he did as president to advance a culture of life. He kept his promise to appoint the conservative federal judges, which gave us the opportunity after a half-century of struggle to protect the unborn,” the organization said in a statement. “We appreciate his statement reaffirming his pro-life convictions.”

While former Vice President Mike Pence called Trump’s statement a “slap in the face,” many other influential conservative groups outright praised Trump’s abortion remarks.

Charlie Kirk, a Trump ally and conservative commentator with a massive online following, said Trump’s comments were a “masterful statement” and that other unnamed anti-abortion leaders informed him they were pleased, as well.

“Major credit to President Trump for resisting the forces who waged an aggressive lobbying effort for him to declare an arbitrary week deadline,” Kirk said. “He trusted his instincts and allows the Pro-Life movement a huge opportunity to continue this human rights issue in the states. He’s 100% right. If we don’t win elections, we get zero of what we want.”