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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's main message to Republican voters in Huntsville Thursday was simple. "Obamacare is, in fact, the death knell for freedom, and that's why it must be repealed," Santorum told a large crowd at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center five days before the state's GOP primary. He referred to the Affordable Care Act passed by Congress and signed into law by Obama in 2010.

Santorum said the law is the "linchpin, if you will, that would tip the scales toward a country that would no longer be free." Mitt Romney, the GOP front-runner who signed a similar health care law while governor of Massachusetts, "is singularly the worst person to make that case," Santorum said.

Praising what he said was the Founders' vision of a country with limited government and maximum freedom, Santorum said, "We have a president who believes in a country that is antithetical to that country.

"He takes more and more freedom from you, takes more and more money from you and believes, as he's doing so, that he's making your life better," Santorum said. Instead, it's "a welfare state he's growing here in America."

Defeating Obama makes the 2012 election the most important "maybe in the history of this country," Santorum said.

Speaking to a friendly crowd about twice as large as the 400-500 drawn by Newt Gingrich two days earlier in the same place, Santorum did touch on one hot social issue. Human rights don't come from the U.S. Constitution, Santorum said, but from "the dignity of being created by a loving God.

"We believe ... in the dignity of all human life, the ability of every person in America, as imperfect as we are, to continue to refine and perfect ourselves to recognize the dignity of all human life," Santorum continued, "although we still fall short in a very critical area, and that is life in the womb."

The crowd applauded loudly when he mentioned that his family home-schooled their seven children and also when he promised to balance the budget in five years, but not cut defense spending and to "invest in the technology we see in Huntsville."

"I support Paul Ryan's budget," Santorum said, referring to the Republican congressman's plan that would, among other things, repeal the health care law, cut taxes on the highest-income individuals and corporations while closing tax loopholes, turn Medicaid into a federal block-grant program, and replace Medicare with private insurance subsidized by the government.

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Santorum says health care law 'death knell for freedom'