Gavin Newsom: “My mom's breast cancer had come back.”

“You're just some young. You're just focused on yourself. You're grinding away, doing your thing. You're not paying attention to your mom. My mom's breast cancer had come back. I had, frankly, taken it for granted that, you know, she'll be fine the second time. Sure. And so she did an assisted suicide, and it was illegal at the time, which is interesting and, by the way, pretty profound for me.” (15:47–15:50)

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