Mehdi Hasan’s Indefensible Defense of Being Pro-Life

In 2012, when he was still living in the United Kingdom, MSNBC journalist Mehdi Hasan wrote an <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/being-prolife-doesnt-make-less-of-a-lefty_b_1964683.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">essay</a> for The New Statesman/HuffPost UK called “Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty.” Hasan’s piece was written in response to criticism surrounding Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s attempt to change the UK abortion cutoff date from 24 weeks to 12 weeks, which is the cutoff date in many EU countries. When the Columbia Journalism Review asked him about the essay in a profile last year, he <a href="https://www.cjr.org/special_report/mehdi_hasan_america.php" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">called it</a> “unnecessarily provocative and gratuitous.” But it’s worse than just provocative and gratuitous: it traffics in highly misleading and un-nuanced arguments that, unfortunately, are Mehdi Hasan’s trademark. For a man whose whole schtick is “Win Every Argument,” he cannot resist arguing in bad faith. <a href="https://jeremyfassler.medium.com/mehdi-hasan-once-wrote-that-being-pro-life-didnt-make-him-any-less-of-a-lefty-adb827145029">Click Here</a>