I don’t buy conspiracies and never have. I think the message here is that just as there are perhaps 5-10% of hard core pro-lifers who will not vote for any candidate even if he is 99% pure on other issues, so too there are a bunch of RINOs for whom abortion is their holy grail-—they want all the benies of GOP stability, national security, and financial soundness, without any of the social discipline.
..it may be just that simple