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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • March 17, 2012

    "You can't make anybody watch, okay? Because you just have to close your eyes."
    -- PA Gov. Tom Corbett, defending bill that requires a doctor to perform an ultrasound with the screen turned towards the patient's face, then present her with two signed copies of the ultrasound image before she can receive an abortion

  • March 16, 2012

    "I don't take credit for it. It's God's hands."
    -- Texas State Sen. Dan Patrick, describing the sonogram bill he authored

  • March 15, 2012

    "The decision to end a life is not funny. There is nothing comic about this tasteless interpretation of legislation we have passed in Texas to ensure that women have all the facts when making a life-ending decision."
    -- Gov. Rick Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier, commenting on this week's strips

  • March 14, 2012

    "Planned Parenthood -- we're going to get rid of that."
    -- Mitt Romney

  • March 13, 2012

    "For many that are dealing with this issue...the concept of 'choice' can really be a fallacy. Because you can't make the right choice without knowing the true impact of what you're deciding."
    -- Gov. Rick Perry, on signing House Bill 15 in Texas

  • March 12, 2012

    "When presented with all the information, every person can make the right choice, the only choice, life."
    -- Governor Rick Perry, explaining the purpose of the Texas sonogram bill to a group of pastors

  • March 09, 2012

    "It isn't far-fetched to think that the President of the United States could say, 'We need to save health care expenses -- the federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family, or two babies to be born per family.' That could happen."
    -- Michele  Bachmann

  • March 07, 2012

    "If we wind up with an open convention and someone wants to throw your name into the hat, would you stop them?
    -- CNN's Paul Vercammen, to Sarah Palin
    "Anything is possible. And I don't close any doors that perhaps would be open out there. So, no, I wouldn't close that door. And my plan is to be at that convention."
    -- Sarah Palin

  • March 07, 2012

    "Her sex life is active. She's having sex so frequently that she can't afford all the birth control pills that she needs."
    -- Rush Limbaugh on Sandra Fluke

  • March 05, 2012

    "If people were praying he would have intervened. You could pray. Jesus stilled the storm. You could still storms."
    -- Pat Robertson on God and the recent tornadoes