Giving her lethal drugs would be murder.
During his first gubernatorial campaign, now-Gov. Gavin Newsom made a truly shocking — and horrifying — admission.
Newsom told a reporter from the New Yorker that in 2002, when he was on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, his 55-year-old mother, who had breast cancer, called to tell him that she had chosen to die by assisted suicide. (“In May, 2002, his mother decided to end her life through assisted suicide,” the New Yorker reports.)
Newsom wasn’t there to pick up the phone, though, because of his political duties.
