{"id":422976,"date":"2025-12-04T00:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/422976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:54:30","slug":"halle-berry-hits-gavin-newsom-over-menopause-bill-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/422976\/","title":{"rendered":"Halle Berry Hits Gavin Newsom Over Menopause Bill Veto"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGavin Newsom<\/a> hasn\u2019t officially launched his all-but-certain campaign for the White House <\/a>yet, but the California Governor has already lost Halle Berry<\/a>\u2018s vote. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBack in my great state of California, my very own governor, Gavin Newsom, has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row,\u201d the Oscar winner told the New York Times\u2019 DealBook conference this morning. \u201cBut that\u2019s okay, because he\u2019s not going to be governor forever,\u201d Berry continued in a very personal and passionate speech that focused on the prejudice against women aging, health concerns and role in society.<\/p>\n

\n\tStanding before the well-heeled Lincoln Center crowd and with Newsom himself on the schedule later Wednesday, Berry put an \u00a0uncomfortable\u00a0national spotlight on the smooth operator governor. \u201cAnd with the way he\u2019s overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either,\u201d she put out there on the Newsom 2028 bid that many Democrats crave.<\/p>\n

\n\tUsually a rapid response machine in constant motion, the governor and his team have not said anything yet about Berry\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhether or not Newsom addresses Berry\u2019s remarks later today on the DealBook stage remains to be seen. However, as much as Hollywood donors are already starting to line up with the Golden State Golden Boy, there is no question that the term-limited politician left the bipartisan supported Menopause Care Equity Act\u00a0unsigned and hence DOA in October.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time, after a campaign by Berry to get his signature on the Act, the ambitious and Donald Trump<\/a>-bashing Newsom said in a letter to legislators: \u201cLast year, I vetoed a substantially similar bill, stating that it would limit the ability of health plans to engage in practices that have been shown to ensure appropriate care while limiting unnecessary costs. That is still the case with this bill \u2013 despite my call for a more tailored solution. This bill\u2019s expansive coverage mandate, in conjunction with a prohibition on UM, is too far-reaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, Respin Health founder and medical advocate Berry, who is 58, took 59-year-old Newsom on over killing the bill in a column she penned for Time. Insisting, based on third party analysis that the groundbreaking \u201claw would have had negligible impact on insurance premiums,\u201d Berry said the \u201cveto represents a failure of Gov. Newsom\u2019s commitment to women.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat neglect has real consequences \u2026We can and must take practical, achievable steps to close this gap\u2014and policymakers like Gov. Newsom need to step up,\u201d Berry noted of the lack of menopause training in medical schools and in the medical industry. Today in NYC, like in her column, the John Wick franchise star pointed out the tens of millions of women dealing with menopause, how it is not a \u201cdisease\u201d and how it affects everyone.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI need every woman in this country to fight with me,\u201d she said towards the end of her just over 15-minute talk, before host Andrew Ross Sorkin chatted via video with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking so truth to a lot of power and with Newsom set to talk with Sorkin in the next hour or so, Berry declared: \u201cBut the truth is, the fight isn\u2019t just for us women. We need men too. We need all of the leaders, every single one of you in this room, this fight needs you. We need you to stay curious. We need you to ask questions. We need you to care even when the topic feels unfamiliar and uncomfortable. We need you to have the conversation anyway, because when women are struggling silently through perimenopause and menopause, trying to hold their families, careers, relationships and communities together, it doesn\u2019t just affect women. It affects every household. It affects the workplace. It affects the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m encouraging women be bold, be loud. Ladies refuse to be diminished during one of the most important seasons of your life, the days of outliving men but doing it in poor health are over. Why? Because we simply deserve better \u2013 We are half the population.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBecause at this stage of my life, I have zero fucks left to give,\u201d she concluded to applause. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom hasn\u2019t officially launched his all-but-certain campaign for the White House yet, but the California Governor has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":422977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[69,1854,68263,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-422976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-gavin-newsom","11":"tag-halle-berry","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115658572716712450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}