Some Republicans Were Willing To Compromise On Abortion Ban Exceptions. Activists Made Sure They Didn't.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : In Idaho and Tennessee, doctors who first pushed for changes were cut out of the process after local anti-abortion organizations pressured lawmakers.
62% : Four states made minor changes to their total abortion bans, in close alignment with anti-abortion organizations.
60% : For decades, major anti-abortion groups did not see a no-exceptions approach as politically possible.
59% : But over time, calls from some Republicans for compromise were overwhelmed by strong opposition from anti-abortion lobbyists.
59% : They use score cards to rate lawmakers on their fealty to anti-abortion causes and fund primary campaigns against Republicans who do not toe the line.
51% : Idaho and Tennessee "wanted to keep their law intact," said Ingrid Duran, the legislative director for National Right to Life.
51% : In anti-abortion circles, Petrillo has been described as a "heroine for the 21st century" and a "modern day saint.
45% : Nancy Davis, a Louisiana woman who traveled out of state for an abortion after she learned her fetus was developing without a skull, said doctors told her, "I had to carry my baby to bury my baby." Mylissa Farmer, a Missouri woman who described being denied abortion care at three separate emergency room visits after her water broke before viability, sparked a federal investigation of the hospitals.
43% : "I had to travel out of state to a doctor who didn't know me and didn't know potential complications.
41% : "If two people are on a one-man raft in the middle of the ocean, the law does not permit one to throw the other overboard even to save his own life," he wrote.
38% : If Rehfeldt developed complications, doctors told her, the law didn't make clear how close to death she needed to be before they could act.
38% : They say the law is still unclear about the level of risk a patient must be facing for a doctor to offer abortion.
38% : Blaine Conzatti, the president of Idaho Family Policy Center, a group that helped pass the original version of the no-exception abortion law, said his organization did not want to see the law clarified.
38% : In some cases, doctors have had to rush patients facing extreme complications exacerbated by pregnancy, like kidney failure, to hospitals out of state.
36% : On the floors of state legislatures over the past year, doctors detailed the risks their pregnant patients have faced when forced to wait to terminate until their health deteriorated.
34% : Current law doesn't explicitly guarantee that rape or incest victims can get copies of their own reports when an investigation is open, said Wintrow.

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