Citing Joan Rivers, Texas’ Perry backs clinic law

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Gov. Rick Perry has pointed toward comedian Joan Rivers dying at a surgery clinic while defending a Texas law that would shutter abortion facilities statewide.

Perry said Sunday “it’s a curious thought” whether Rivers might be alive had there been tighter regulations at a New York outpatient surgery center where she went into cardiac arrest this month.

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