"For the first time the campaign had a debt, the debt was from my perspective a little bit more substantial than I was comfortable with," Santorum said.
"If we're going to have a debate about who the extremist is on these issues, it is President Obama who, as a state senator, voted to protect doctors who killed babies who survived the abortion," Gingrich said.
As news of presidential candidate Rick Santorum's opposition to birth control spreads alongside outrage over Obama's insurance mandate, the spark of a nearly extinct debate in the media is being steadily fanned.