North Dakota’s governor signed a bill Wednesday outlawing a grisly abortion procedure in which an unborn baby is dismembered, limb by limb, until the uterus is empty.

The signature by Republican Gov. Doug Burgum made North Dakota the 11th state to ban a procedure medically known as dilation and evacuation, according to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute. Most similar laws, though, have been blocked in court.  

The new law, HB 1546, doesn’t use the medical term but instead describes it in graphic detail, calling it “human dismemberment abortion.” 

Such an abortion, according to the bill’s text, involves “intentionally dismembering a living unborn child and extracting the unborn child one piece at a time” with the “purpose of causing the death of an unborn child, through use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors, or similar instruments.” The instruments, the text says, are used to “slice, crush, or grasp the head, arm, leg, spinal cord, internal organ, or other portion of the unborn child’s body to cut or rip it off.”

Medora Nagle, executive director of North Dakota Right to Life, called passage of the bill a “pro-life victory,” according to The Bismarck Tribune. 

Republicans control the legislature and championed the bill. Opponents complained the language was too explicit and that it was tantamount to a…

More than 350,000 walk through New York City’s Times Square each day. This week, they’re getting a pro-life message from young women. 

Students for Life of America began running a pro-life digital ad on a 50-foot-tall billboard Wednesday showing women who oppose Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. 

The ad features women holding signs reading, “I Don’t Trust Planned Parenthood,” “I Reject Abortion Extremism” and “I Am The Pro-Life Generation.” 

Stand-alone text in the ad includes three rotating messages:

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  “Today, Planned Parenthood Will End The Lives of 910 Human Beings.”
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  “Only 7% of Millennials Support the Abortion Extremism in New York State.”
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  “The Pro-Life Generation Has Arrived to Vote out Abortion.” 

Each message includes the tag: “Learn More at StudentsForLife.org. #ProLifeGen.” 

The ad began running Wednesday at 6 a.m. Eastern and is scheduled to run through Saturday at 2 a.m. Eastern. Students for Life is accepting donations to pay for the ads, which are 15 seconds each. The ads are running as the organization holds its annual Gala in the city. 

Nearly 380,000 people enter the heart of Times Square each day, according to Times Square’s official website. On the busiest days, that count can be as high as 450,000.  

“We had to fight to have…

Mount Holyoke College placed their newly hired police chief, Daniel Hect, on administrative leave Wednesday after students complained about him liking conservative posts on Twitter.

According to Daily Wire, Hect announced that he was appointed as the Police Chief of Mount Holoke College and Smith College on February 6. Now, just two months later, Hect has been placed on administrative leave.

Daily Wire reports that after Hect was announced as the new Police Chief, students began to dig into his Twitter account. Some of the students seemingly found several tweets that Hect liked to be inappropriate. These tweets include one from the NRA wishing its followers “Merry Christmas” another from the NRA stating, “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns,” and several other tweets from President Trump regarding the current border crisis.

According to Daily Wire, a student pegged these tweets as hateful saying it is “unacceptable for someone in charge of keeping any community safe, let alone a campus as diverse as MHC’s, to be publicly displaying his support for hateful regimes and organizations, as well as for individuals who demonize migrants from Mexico or other latin american (sic) nations.”

Then in March, Hect and the college’s administration held several events where students would be allowed to talk with Hect. 

According to the school’s newspaper, the event…

The writer and director of Unplanned says Google and Twitter engaged in a form of censorship and discrimination against the popular pro-life movie. 

Chuck Konzelman, who co-wrote and co-directed the film, appeared Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, which was examining the confluence of technology, public discourse and free speech. Experts on free speech and a representative from Facebook also appeared. 

“In a digital age, exclusion from the digital arena isn’t just discriminatory,” Konzelman said. “It’s the most insidiously effective form of censorship imaginable.”

Konzelman said Google Ads blocked Unplanned banner -s. Google, he added, referenced a company policy against abortion-related ads. 

“Just one problem: We weren’t doing abortion-related ads. We were marketing a movie,” he told senators. “We firmly believe they were sharpshooting us — hiding behind highly selective and discriminatory enforcement of their own guidelines. It is impossible for me to quantify the damage done by Google’s refusal, but it’s absurd to think that there wasn’t damage done.”

Konzelman — who appeared alongside co-director and co-writer Cary Solomon — also mentioned Twitter’s suspension of the Unplanned account. It was restored after about three hours. 

“The reason for the suspension…

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Muslim Democrat from Minnesota, is once again in the national spotlight after portraying the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks as a day when “some people did something.” She made the comments last month during a fundraising speech in Los Angeles for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been linked to Hamas. Her appearance drew hundreds of protesters.

Previous coverage of the speech detailed remarks in which she encouraged fellow Muslim Americans to “raise hell” and “make people uncomfortable” with their activism.

“So, to me, I say raise hell. Make people uncomfortable,” Omar said as the crowd cheered. “Because here’s the truth, here’s the truth: Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and frankly I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it.”

But contents from another part of the speech, which downplayed al Qaeda’s role in the terror attacks, only began to surface on social media this week.

“CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,” Omar said at the event.

Reaction has been swift. Omar’s colleague, Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, slammed the freshman representative for her depiction of the…

After Indiana’s openly-gay mayor Pete Buttigieg condemned Vice President Mike Pence for his Christian values for the second time over the weekend, Pence responded on Wednesday noting that Buttigieg “knows better.”

As Christian Headlines previously reported, at an LGBTQ Victory Fund bunch on Sunday Buttigieg – who shared in March that he tries to live his life “consistent with Christian teachings” – said that Vice President Mike Pence’s Biblical view of marriage should call his view of God’s authority into question. 

Buttigieg said, “If me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade.” 

He continued, “And that’s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand. That if you got a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me — your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.”

In an interview with CNBC’s Joe Kernen of the “Squawk Box,” Kernen asked Pence if he had a chance to respond to Buttigieg’s comment.

Pence shared that he was not surprised by the claims despite the fact that the two worked “very closely” when Pence was the governor of Indiana.

Pence said, “I worked very closely with Mayor Pete when I was governor of the state of Indiana. We had a great working relationship.”

He continued, “He said some critical things that are critical of my…