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16 October 2012updated 05 Oct 2023 8:40am

10 things Mehdi Hasan learned from debating abortion on Twitter

A response to the reaction to my most recent column.

By Mehdi Hasan

I guess I should thank Felix Baumgartner. It was his jump that helped the Twitter mob “move on” from my column on abortion in the New Statesman – cross-posted on the Huffington Post UK – which had sparked such outrage, hysteria and abuse after it was published online on Sunday morning.

I may be digging myself further into a hole here but, with the benefit of a few hours of sleep, let me outline the ten things I think I learned from trying to debate and discuss abortion online:

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