There is just so much weapons-grade stupidity here, that I'm at a loss for words. According to The Guardian:
Texas governor Rick Perry has suggested that the comedian Joan Rivers might not have died during a routine medical procedure had the New York outpatient clinic treating her been subject to the same kind of stringent standards required by Texas’s controversial new abortion laws.
Last year, amid intense protests, Perry signed into a law a bill containing some of the nation’s most stringent abortion restrictions. The bill includes the requirement that abortions be performed in ambulatory surgical centres and has led to the closure of about half of Texas’s clinics, many of which were unable to upgrade their facilities.
Here's the money quote:
“It was interesting that when Joan Rivers, and the procedure that she had done, where she died – that was a clinic. And I’m just – it’s a curious thought that if they had had that type of regulations in place, whether or not that individual would be still alive,” Perry said on Sunday in response to a question from an audience member during a keynote session at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.
There's really nothing I can add except...this clown is a contender for the GOP's Presidential campaign? Yeah...good luck with
that.