Quincy Mayor Tom Koch Calls Out Local Pro-Abortion Politicians

QUINCY, MA — Mayor Thomas Koch expressed his strong opinions and called out Massachusetts politicians who support abortion rights during a pro-life rally last Thursday.

Koch became a registered Independent and left the Democratic party in 2018 after Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez urged all Democrats to support abortion rights, as reported by The Patriot Ledger.

During the rally, the mayor of over a decade expressed his opposition to the local state legislators who voted to override Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's decision to veto the ROE Act, a bill that expanded legal abortion access.

The bill, known as the ROE Act, lengthens access to legal abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy in cases of lethal fetal anomalies and in instances when a physician deems it necessary to protect the patient's life or physical or mental health, and changed the minimum age for the procedure from 18 to 16, according to Section 12M.

Former tight end with the New England Patriots, Benjamin Watson also attended the rally at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Quincy last Thursday.