Marty Walsh Supported Naming Boston Square After Abortionist Once Convicted of Suffocating A Baby

An Irish Catholic who grew up going to St. Margaret's Church in Dorchester (now St. Teresa of Calcutta Church), U.S. Labor Secretary nominee Marty Walsh has been a strong advocate for abortion expansion policies — and expressed no concerns when the city named a landmark after an abortion doctor in Boston during his tenure as mayor.

Walsh, who has served as mayor of Boston since 2014, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1997 to 2014, identified as "personally pro-life" during his early years in the legislature. However, in a 2016 interview with The Boston Globe, Walsh said that the phrase doesn't mean anything. He said, "In 2001, that was kind of like a — I think a lot of legislators were trying to figure out where they were going with different things as they were moving forward and I think that you evolve over time. And so what that means:  there's really no such thing as personally pro-life."