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If Eric Murphy loses his primary election on June 9, he believes he already knows one reason why.<\/p>\n

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Last year, the North Dakota state representative, a Republican, tried to expand the window of pregnancy in which women could access abortion. The state legislature had banned it for almost everyone from the moment of conception.<\/p>\n

Tied up in court, the ban hadn\u2019t yet gone into effect. But Murphy wanted to lock in a less restrictive law, making abortion accessible up to 15 weeks and even later for women whose doctors deemed it a medical necessity.<\/p>\n

To convince his fellow legislators, he read out loud from two ProPublica stories about women in Texas who died without lifesaving care. \u201cPhysicians felt compelled to follow the law,\u201d he said in a hearing, \u201cand both women died so that an inane law could be followed.\u201d<\/p>\n

A conservative colleague had warned him not to file the bill, Murphy told ProPublica, recalling the man\u2019s words: \u201cI can no longer protect you from who\u2019s going to come after you.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was some truth to that sentiment.<\/p>\n

At least four Republican state lawmakers who challenged severe abortion restrictions lost support from anti-abortion groups and key party allies and went on to lose primary elections, ProPublica found.<\/p>\n

The blueprint in those races was remarkably similar. Opponents either embraced stricter abortion policies or avoided the issue altogether. Anti-abortion organizations campaigned against the incumbents, party endorsements shifted to their opponents and activists worked to turn out voters in low-participation primary elections.<\/p>\n

In some of the races ProPublica examined, lawmakers who replaced abortion-ban reformers went on to support even stricter abortion legislation. In South Carolina, for instance, two new senators supported a bill to eliminate almost all exceptions to the state\u2019s abortion ban. One provision of the bill would send women convicted of illegally terminating their pregnancies to jail.<\/p>\n

Murphy is one of at least two Republican state lawmakers now facing a contested primary after trying to modify their states\u2019 abortion restrictions. Richard Briggs, a state senator from Tennessee, is also fighting to keep his seat. In 2019, Briggs voted for the state\u2019s so-called trigger law \u2014 a ban that would snap into place if the federal right to abortion was ever overturned.<\/p>\n

But he had second thoughts after that actually happened. A cardiothoracic surgeon, Briggs realized the newly activated law didn\u2019t provide adequate protections for patients having medical complications. \u201cAs a medical doctor, I drew the line,\u201d he said in an interview. He introduced bills for a clearer medical exception and protection for doctors who intervened in cases where a fatal fetal anomaly risked the mother\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

The latter bill failed and now serves as ammunition for the challenger vying for his seat in the state\u2019s Aug. 6 primary. \u201cMy opponent consistently works to weaken Tennessee\u2019s pro life laws,\u201d Kent Morrell says on his campaign website, noting that Tennessee Right to Life had revoked its endorsement of Briggs.<\/p>\n

Murphy, who teaches biomedical sciences at the University of North Dakota\u2019s medical school, ultimately did not succeed at reforming the state\u2019s ban. His bill failed 87-6, and the state Supreme Court later reinstated the original ban, which forbids abortion from conception, with exceptions for rape and incest up to six weeks and to save the life of the mother.<\/p>\n

The first time Murphy ran for election, his county\u2019s Republican Party had endorsed him. Not this time. Instead, the party endorsed his two challengers, including Jill Chandler, the executive director of a \u201ccrisis pregnancy center\u201d who believes abortion should be banned from conception.<\/p>\n

She told ProPublica she happened to be present in the committee room when Murphy made the case for his bill. \u201cTo know that he was an endorsed Republican candidate from my district and one that I had voted for because of that endorsement was eye-opening,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember thinking, \u2018This can never happen again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not the first time either Briggs or Murphy had taken positions that aggravated members of their parties in legislatures that have taken sharp turns to the right. Murphy voted against book bans and private school vouchers. Briggs had urged the public to get COVID-19 shots and has said that medical expertise should trump politics in decisions that involve public health.<\/p>\n

Briggs expressed confidence in his election chances; he feels that voters agree with the decisions he\u2019s made and noted that his Republican colleague, Sen. Becky Duncan Massey, survived a primary challenge over her support for abortion-ban exceptions.<\/p>\n

Murphy believes the \u201csilent majority\u201d supports the intent of his abortion bill, but primary races historically have low turnout. It could come down to a handful of votes, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI might lose an election over this,\u201d Murphy said, \u201cbut would I rather win an election by not doing the right thing?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fallen Reformers<\/h3>\n

Mary DuBuisson, a former state Republican representative in a suburb outside of New Orleans, considers herself passionately \u201cpro-life.\u201d Like Briggs, she voted for her state\u2019s near-total abortion ban in 2019. Three years later, just before Louisiana\u2019s trigger law was implemented, it came before the legislature again.<\/p>\n

Recognizing that women would now have to live under the restriction, DuBuisson wanted to make sure victims of rape and incest could terminate their pregnancies. When her colleagues refused to include those exceptions, she became the only Republican to vote against the ban.<\/p>\n

A year later, she caused a stir when she sponsored a bill that would have allowed women whose pregnancies were not viable to end them. \u201cTo force a woman to carry to term with zero chance of survival is heartless and cruel,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t feel it would be controversial. Other Republican women in the House told her she was doing the right thing. But when it was time to vote, another female Republican state lawmaker made a motion that ultimately succeeded at killing the bill in committee. \u201cI mean, I just couldn\u2019t understand,\u201d she said of all her colleagues. \u201cWhat if this was you, your daughter or granddaughter?\u201d<\/p>\n

When she came up for reelection, her primary opponent latched onto her record. Brian Glorioso was an attorney she had handily defeated in 2018. He called her proposed legislation a leftist attempt to circumvent the state\u2019s abortion ban and said any \u201cpro-abortion\u201d doctor would falsely deem a pregnancy nonviable in records just to perform the procedure.<\/p>\n

She beat him in the Oct. 14, 2023, primary by 384 votes \u2014 not enough to avoid a runoff.<\/p>\n

Then, he got some extra support.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 16, Louisiana Right to Life told its followers this runoff was key. Glorioso was expected to have a 100% \u201cpro-life\u201d voting record, while DuBuisson\u2019s was 77%.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 27, the state\u2019s new governor-elect, Republican Jeff Landry, endorsed him, citing issues other than abortion; he wouldn\u2019t tell ProPublica whether DuBuisson\u2019s record on it played a role. But Landry, who had defended the state\u2019s ban as attorney general, made clear during his campaign that he was \u201can unwavering defender of life, especially in the face of adversity,\u201d citing his 100% rating from a national anti-abortion group.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it partially cost me my election,\u201d DuBuisson said of her attempts to reform the ban.<\/p>\n

History repeated itself the following year, this time in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Three state senators \u2014 all Republicans who consider themselves \u201cpro-life\u201d \u2014 worked across party lines to defeat an abortion bill that essentially banned the procedure from conception and eliminated rape and incest exceptions. At the time, the state allowed abortion up to 20 weeks.<\/p>\n

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Sens. Sandy Senn and Penry Gustafson spoke out against limitations on abortion access for victims of rape and incest. Sen. Katrina Shealy, who had the longest tenure for a woman in the state legislature, pushed for making abortion accessible up to 12 weeks and later for exceptions in cases involving rape, incest and fatal fetal anomalies. Ultimately, a six-week window with rape, incest and fatal fetal exceptions became law.<\/p>\n

Amid the Statehouse showdown, they were nicknamed the \u201cSister Senators.\u201d All lost their county GOP\u2019s endorsement to their male opponents.<\/p>\n

But the bigger repercussions came from anti-abortion groups that mobilized a multifront grassroots campaign against them. Students for Life Action announced that it generated \u201c37,000 pieces of mail, almost 130,000 personal text messages, more than 51,000 phone calls and thousands of doors knocked\u201d to unseat the trio.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll three of them got voted out \u2014 every single one of them lost because of that decision,\u201d said Dr. Matthew Clark, the executive director of Personhood South Carolina, which believes abortion shouldn\u2019t exist at all and that women who have them should be prosecuted for murder.<\/p>\n

Clark, an allergist and Presbyterian pastor, said his group\u2019s desired legislation has a better chance to advance now that the Sister Senators have been replaced.<\/p>\n

Matt Leber, who beat Senn, previously co-sponsored a bill as a member of the state House that would make abortion a crime equivalent to homicide. It failed to advance, and Leber withdrew his name as a co-sponsor amid a controversy surrounding it in 2023.<\/p>\n

This legislative session, Leber and Carlisle Kennedy, who beat Shealy, supported a bill that carries misdemeanor criminal penalties for women seeking abortions, with jail time up to two years. Senate Bill 1095 passed with supermajority support out of a committee Leber sits on.<\/p>\n

The bill died before the session, but watchers of abortion restrictions noticed it got further than any other similarly repressive legislation ever has.<\/p>\n

A Fateful Disconnect<\/h3>\n

The outcomes do not neatly match public polling. Surveys in states such as South Carolina and have found that many Republican voters support at least some exceptions to abortion bans, including in cases of rape or threats to a woman\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

But primary elections often draw only a small share of eligible voters, giving outsized influence to highly engaged activists and organized interest groups.<\/p>\n

DuBuisson\u2019s runoff drew about one-third of registered voters. Participation in the South Carolina primaries was lower still. Some races were decided on tiny margins; Senn lost hers by 33 votes.<\/p>\n

The North Dakota GOP has moved further to the right on abortion in recent years, even as polling suggested the state\u2019s restrictions were losing support from Republican voters. At its 2026 convention, the party passed a resolution rejecting any policies that \u201cnormalize\u201d abortion.<\/p>\n

North Dakota is one of the few states with a multimember system, where two representatives and one senator govern together in the same district. District 43, which Murphy currently represents, is one of the only purple districts in an otherwise deeply red state. It includes part of Grand Forks, a growing college town home to the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n

Murphy\u2019s fellow representative, Democrat Zac Ista, told ProPublica he hadn\u2019t been able to make a dent in this legislature. He announced he wouldn\u2019t be seeking reelection, opening up an opportunity for a Republican takeover of the district.<\/p>\n

Ista said the lack of support rallying around Murphy is due to his position on abortion, as well as culture-war legislation he refused to support. \u201cI think it\u2019s illustrative of that schism, where at this district level, Republicans are really trying to sort of press the most extreme conservative opinions,\u201d Ista said.<\/p>\n

Richard Glynn, the GOP county chair in Murphy\u2019s district, had previously supported Murphy\u2019s abortion bill. In written testimony, Glynn shared his experience hearing about young women performing illegal abortions when he was a freshman at the University of South Dakota in 1966. Four young women who were in sororities died from using metal hangers to terminate their pregnancies, he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese deaths were viewed as preventable if these girls could have received competent care. Unfortunately, North Dakota is going down the same path with limited access to obstetric care that negatively impacts the health of the woman,\u201d his letter said.<\/p>\n

When reached by phone, Glynn said delegates in the county voted and Murphy had the least amount of votes, which is why he did not receive the county\u2019s endorsement.<\/p>\n

Glynn declined to answer more questions before hanging up on a reporter.<\/p>\n

One of Murphy\u2019s opponents, Mike Holmes, has drawn a lot of excitement \u2014 and an endorsement from Gov. Kelly Armstrong \u2014 for his expertise in energy technology and industrial development. The governor said Holmes understands \u201cwhat it takes to keep North Dakota\u2019s economy strong.\u201d Holmes has been silent on abortion and didn\u2019t respond to ProPublica\u2019s requests for an interview.<\/p>\n

Chandler, who touted her \u201crespect for life\u201d in a campaign mailer, is favored among anti-abortion groups. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty stark contrast,\u201d said Bridget Turbide, executive director of North Dakota Right to Life, who called Murphy\u2019s proposal \u201cthe most extreme pro-choice bill we\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citizens Alliance of North Dakota, a conservative group that opposes abortion among other causes, paid for a mailer calling Chandler a \u201cchampion of family values.\u201d The same group marked Murphy in \u201cbad standing\u201d in an online roster of legislators, questioning his alignment with North Dakota values.<\/p>\n

Murphy\u2019s third colleague who also represents District 43, Republican State Sen. Jeff Barta, campaigned alongside him in 2022 as part of a unified Republican ticket when the primary election was uncontested.<\/p>\n

Asked about the upcoming race and the candidates, Barta pointed to Murphy\u2019s proposal that would have expanded abortion access in North Dakota.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast session, he introduced House Bill 1488, which created a little divide there,\u201d Barta said.<\/p>\n

Barta said Murphy has also broken with the party on other issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat probably opened the door for the third candidate to run,\u201d Barta added. Had that not happened, Murphy would have made it to the general election without having to defend his spot on the ballot.<\/p>\n

Before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, lawmakers taking such nuanced stands on abortion bans may not have risked a career death sentence, said abortion historian and law professor Mary Ziegler.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kind of incrementalism that Eric Murphy seems to be doing is something from a bygone era, where people were more pragmatic in the movement and not punished for it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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