With Chris Smith the issue is doing everything possible to stop abortion; with King and Fossella, I think they are afraid of their districts becoming increasingly Democratic and liberal. It was Smith who wanted the welfare reform law in NJ changed because it stopped funding for any woman who had additional children and was already receiving welfare - he felt it would encourage abortion - which it did.
One of the rare instances where he had to choose between social and fiscal conservatism - and he chose the former. I can’t fault him there.