Mehdi Hasan: Being Pro-Life Doesn’t Make Me Any Less Of A Lefty
I’m not a huge fan of Mehdi Hasan (Political Director Huffington Post) but his article on abortion today almost elicited a round of applause from me.
Listening to fellow pundits on the left react with rage and disbelief to the support by the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, for halving the abortion time limit to 12 weeks, I was reminded of the late Christopher Hitchens. “[A]nyone who has ever seen a sonogram or has spent even an hour with a textbook on embryology knows that emotions are not the deciding factor [in abortions],” wrote the Hitch in his column for the Nation magazine in April 1989. “In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain . . . break some bones and rupture some organs.”
Tags: Law Moral Ethical
October 14th, 2012 at 4:58 pm
“Abortion is one of those rare political issues on which left and right seem to have swapped ideologies: right-wingers talk of equality, human rights and “defending the innocent”, while left-wingers fetishise “choice”, selfishness and unbridled individualism.”
I just don’t get why anyone would think that being left-wing would automatically pro-choice, although it would seem to make more sense the other way round, given many Labour MPs views on this.
As far as I can see saying that you’re pro-choice because you’re left-wing makes about as much sense as saying that you eat cheese because you’re left wing, i.e. it doesn’t.
October 15th, 2012 at 10:58 am
In hoc signo vinces†
Webmaster almost applauding Mehdi Hasan
, the opinion maybe deceptively familiar, the blind invitation the approval of Mehdi Hasan’s agenda.
October 15th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Hasan has now blogged:
10 Things I Learned From Debating Abortion On Twitter
October 15th, 2012 at 4:51 pm
In hoc signo vinces†
“We know that keeping the moral high ground is key. Once we lose the moral high ground we are no different from the rest of the non-Muslims; from the rest of those human beings who live their lives as animals, bending any rule to fulfil any desire.” – Mehdi Hasan
The mohammedan tactical assault for the Western (pro-life) moral high ground – FAIL.