Should Republicans become less anti abortion for political reasons?

[Schiff for Senate]

Honestly yes. The religious right isn't as powerful as it thinks/pretends it is, and even if the Republicans moderated a bit on abortion, they'd stay in line since they really have no other alternative options and nowhere else to go. The extremist pro-life stance on abortion is really out of touch with moderates and can't exactly help in winning their votes. Moderate a little bit and a bunch of moderate swing voters would be likelier to vote GOP at the cost of a very small percentage of the religious right staying home. Even if you are genuinely extremely pro-life it's obviously much better to support the moderately pro-life party over the rabidly pro-choice party. Besides which there are reasons other than abortion the religious right votes Republican (homophobia, transphobia, social authoritarianism, wanting to narrow the gap between church and state) and I'm assuming the GOP would still be very conservative on those issues. So most of the religious right would still turn out, and they'd vote just as Republican as they did previously.