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Rick Santorum blasted newly minted Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich as "inconsistent" with most Iowans and Americans on abortion issues, arguing that conservative voters in the Hawkeye State would abandon the former Speaker of the House after learning about his social positions.

"My guess is that they’ll do what has happened to a lot of candidates, which is once you find out more about the candidates, you may try to look for another candidate," Santorum said in an interview with the Des Moines Register.

The former Pennsylvania senator attacked Gingrich for statements in which he said he was in favor of federally financed abortions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, and encouraged then-President George W. Bush to approve some federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Santorum argued that those positions were contrary to the goals of the Susan Anthony List pledge, an important abortion litmus test for voters in the Iowa caucus.

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