Halle Berry’s subsequent starring position is on Capitol Hill: The “Monster’s Ball” star is becoming a member of a bipartisan group of 5 feminine senators to make the push for menopause analysis funding.
The 57-year-old actor shall be current Thursday to announce a brand new invoice that proponents name the “most expansive effort to date to spice up federal analysis on menopause,” which might create “new public well being efforts to enhance ladies’s mid-life well being.”
Berry will be part of Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) on the Senate steps for the information convention unveiling the “historic” laws, organizers mentioned Wednesday.
It’s not the primary time that the Academy Award winner has appeared alongside political figures within the identify of girls’s well being. In January, Berry accompanied first girl Jill Biden at a cease to advertise the difficulty through the first girl’s journey to Chicago.
In an essay she penned final yr about menopause, Berry wrote, “We are able to make speaking about ladies’s well being points much less taboo by daring to speak about it.”
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