Colorado abortion opponents had mixed reviews of the Trump administration’s anti-abortion stand Friday during the March for Life in Washington, D.C.

“Thrilling, that’s what it was,” said Amanda Smith, an anti-abortion activist in Denver. “We’ve been waiting a long time to get a president and vice president with the courage to take this on.”

Though in its 43rd year, Friday’s march on Washington was fueled by a tense political climate led most recently by last weekend’s women’s marches in Washington, Denver and other cities, when abortion rights were center stage.

“Life is winning again in America,” Vice President Mike Pence told a cheering crowd of abortion opponents on the National Mall Friday.

Pence is a Catholic who enacted anti-abortion laws as  Indiana’s governor. He was the first vice president to address the March for Life, signaling the concerns many in the abortion-rights movement have that President Trump will erode reproductive choice nationally.

Pence told Washington marchers, “Along with you, we will not grow weary, we will not rest until we restore a culture of life in America for ourselves and our posterity.”

Bob Enyart, the director of Colorado Right to Life, said the Trump administration isn’t doing enough, and leaving plenty of room to keep abortion available. Trump has said he hopes to appoint a pro-life Supreme Court justice in the vein of the late Antonin Scalia.

In Enyart’s view Scalia didn’t do enough to outlaw abortion.

“Pence said ‘life is winning,’ but the 1 million children killed each year are not winning,” Enyart said. “What’s winning is Republicans are winning elections lately, but these children are not winning.”

Ashley Wheeland, legislative and political director for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, said Trump anti-abortion activists are bucking the national sentiment.

A Pew Research Poll released on Jan. 11 indicated 57 percent of Americans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, as high as support had been in 20 years of polling.

“To us their message is trying to take us back, and extreme politicians want to drag us backwards, but we will not be dragged backwards,” Wheeland said.

“The new administration and Congress ignores the women voters and the women who came to march at their own peril … This march today is out of step with what women and most Americans want.”