By Ken Shepherd | January 30, 2012 | 11:10 AM EST

Update: A former Santorum colleague at EPPC responds. [see bottom of post]

Yahoo! News contributor Andrew Riggio yesterday evening cynically used the occasion of Bella Santorum's hospitalization and her father's accompanying temporary suspension of his presidential campaign to attack the pro-life conservative who opposes taxpayer-financed embryonic stem-cell research: