Posted on 03/27/2026 11:46:36 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Gavin Newsom is reflecting on the long-term grief he dealt with after witnessing his mother end her life through assisted death, also referred to as death with dignity.
Newsom was a 34-year-old rising politician at the time and told the outlet that he felt guilty that his busy schedule kept him distant as his mom suffered from the disease. But when the day arrived, he and his sister Hilary were by Tessa’s side.
“I hated her for it — to be there for the last breath — for years,” he said. “I want to say it was a beautiful experience. It was horrible.”
Newsom recalled giving Tessa painkillers to make her comfortable before the “courageous doctor” arrived. Tessa confirmed to the doctor that she was sure about her decision and the lethal medication was administered.
“Then I sat there with her for another 20 minutes after she was dead,” he said. “My head on her stomach, just crying, waiting for another breath.”
At the time of Tessa’s death, medical aid in dying was illegal in California. Despite the heartbreaking experience, he told the Post that witnessing that moment eventually strengthened his support for MAID being legalized nationwide.
“I watched the physical deterioration, the mental deterioration, just the cries of pain,” he said. “She would have just suffered.”
Newsom stressed that people should have “the freedom to make that decision themselves.”
California’s End of Life Options Act went into effect on June 9, 2016.
With MAID, terminally ill adults who are of sound mind and have been approved by at least two doctors can receive a prescription for a lethal medication. It is different from euthanasia because the patients themselves administer prescribed drugs to end their lives, rather than a doctor.
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His Mom looks like a nice person...
Take zero’s pill you creep.
With his license plate 370H55V, you should have already figured that out.
Yep. He’s running for President. An even worse sleazebag than Bidet.
Are you related? (sarcasm intended)
It seems like you have him pegged like only a sibling could. No honor, amorally bankrupt and a chattering poseur. Excellent analysis JayGalt.
AMEN, pray unceasingly that you show yourself approved, to stand in the correct path to LIFE. You post hit my heart dead center.
A MENTAL CASE.
SICK...YOU NEED GOD.
It may very well all be true, but I don’t believe a single word of it.
I’m very religious.
I am my brothers keeper,
But there are many things
I can’t do to help people.
Since you can’t institutionalize
mentally ill people anymore,
what do you do?
You can pass all the laws you want,
but that won’t fix the problem
when you are dealing with a nutcase
that intends to destroy life, be it
theirs or someone else’s,
Or take advantage of the system
to get away with something.
Let God sort it out.
“Let God sort it out.”
He gave us free will.
HE CANNOT HELP HIMSELF....LIKE A 9 YEAR OLD——
The old saw of presidential politics was play to the base in the primaries, go to the center in the general.
Barry did that a bit as he was against gay marriage before he was for it.
Biden was more selected than a primary winner.
Mayor Pete WON the Iowa Caucuses which was kept a secret until Biden got to South Carolina where Kingfish Clyburn anointed him and was handed the nomination.
Komrade Kammy was anointed with the nomination as well and only played to the base.
Her critical mistake may have been ghosting Joe Rogan who would have treated her with kid gloves.
She ghosted him and Rogan endorsed Trump and that pretty much sealed the deal.
Newscum is certainly playing to the base, but in doing so he is painting himself into a corner where can never move to the center if he wanted to.
I don’t believe it. I don’t believe there was assisted suicide back then.
It wasn’t legal in California at that time. He is full of it and no one can call him in it. Give the physician who assisted.
No wonder he’s a mess! Im glad he realized he’s too effed up to run for President.
Whatever comes out of his Pie-Hole - I disbelieve.
IMO, the majority of Zionists are simply brothers of the worshippers of Mo. A 60 pct rate of atheistm in Israel proper, and many no longer following Torah is an indicator of that. Instead they study Talmud, and have the same false belief that a Messiah will lead them to world dominance.
The duty of Christians is to convert both groups to The Truth, which is Jesus Christ is Messiah. Otherwise, they should be quarantined and kept shunned and isolated in the Middle East they seem to love and protect. Christian only immigration must be the rule in the US.
Christian Zionists are also part of the deception. The Anti-Christ will be revealed and be sacrificed to at a rebuilt Temple. Rebuilding it, is doing the work of the AC. Benny Hinn and others are doing the Devils work, even TPUSA.
Christ is our Temple, and any structure built will be at his will after he destroys his enemies and resurects his Saints.
Christians need to remain focused on the “Great Commission” which is to occupy. It is not to go to war, then bring the heathens into our country after we declare victory following defeat after defeat.
I know my opinion is seen as sign of racism, but it is not. All races are welcome in Christianity. Otherwise, they must not be welcomed in. They poison the entire nation. Yet we bring in non-Christians by the butt load from the ME and India.
America was built as a fortress against the heathens, to pollute it with multiple ungodly believers endangers us all.
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