PROVIDENCE — With behind-the-scenes efforts underway by a key member of the Senate leadership to win over enough fence-sitters to get an abortion-rights bill through the Senate and, ultimately, onto the governor’s desk, the lead Senate sponsor — Gayle Goldin — wants it known: she opposes compromise.

“I do not plan on supporting amendments intended to water down the bill,” Goldin, D-Providence, said. “My goal has been always to get this bill to the governor’s desk so that we protect a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion. I don’t intend to accept anything less.”

But it remains to be seen whether Goldin will have the last word on the legislation to enshrine the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling in state law, over the objections of the state’s Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin and other staunch opponents of abortion at any stage of pregnancy.

At one point, it appeared a 5-to-4 majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee was likely to pass the legislation. But one of the five — Sen. Stephen Archambault — has led colleagues to believe he is wavering.

As both a co-sponsor of the abortion-rights legislation — and chairwoman of the Senate Judiciary Committee — Democrat Erin Lynch Prata told The Journal on Tuesday: “My goal is to get it out of committee and ... get it to the governor’s desk and however I can do that, I want to do that with some semblance of the bill that we have now.“So, yes, there are discussions,” she said. “There are constant discussions. ... They are not super-specific right now.”

When pressed, she said, “everything is on the table,” including proposed amendments that failed during the House debate on a matching House-passed bill.

That could potentially include Republican Rep. Brian Newberry’s attempt to tie any state law guaranteeing the right to an abortion in Rhode Island to “the United States Supreme Court issuing and publishing a decision reversing or overturning the holding set forth in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).

”This proposed “trigger” failed in the House on a 42-to-29 vote, and Lynch Prata did not embrace it on Tuesday. But, she said: ’There are a lot of opinions involved, and I think that we have to take all of those into consideration, not only the members of the committee, but certainly the sponsor of the bill ... other [Senate] members. This was a major piece of discussion in campaigns, and it [is] something people feel very strongly about.”

“There’s a handful of people that are pro-life and nothing will satisfy them. ... There’s a group of people that are pro-choice and will vote for almost anything, and then there are those people in the middle who .. .want to do what they feel is the right thing, but there’s a lot of propaganda and misinformation out there, and that makes people squeamish,” she said.

Her example: “This thought [that] if you are ‘pro-choice’ ... you are ‘pro-abortion’ and there’s this want or need to allow terminations up to birth, and that is simply not the reality.”

Lynch Prata’s own position as one of the 17 co-sponsors: “I think it is a question of access to the appropriate health care. ... I think there’s a real difference between maintaining the safe access to health care that we have now and being painted as a quote-unquote ‘pro-abortion’ person.”

“I was fortunate enough not to grow up in a time where I had to worry about health and safety of myself, my sisters, now my nieces. I just think it is something that we need to preserve and protect.”

Goldin has the same end goal, but she is counting on Senate Majority Leader Michael McCaffrey to keep promises that she says he has made publicly and privately to allow the full Senate to vote on her bill, even if he does not ultimately vote for it.

She cited a statement he made to the Warwick Beacon while facing a Democratic primary challenger last year: “Asked about Roe v. Wade, McCaffrey said, “I support codifying Roe. v. Wade. It’s the law of the land.”

McCaffrey could not be reached for comment on Tuesday. Archambault was also unavailable for comment on his current stance. For his part, Senate President Dominick Ruggerio told The Public’s Radio earlier this month that he expects the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote this session on some version of the abortion-rights bill, although he remains noncommittal on the timing.

State lawmakers are on break this week.