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Pregnant Norwegian woman have been allowed to undergo abortions in Sweden after finding out the sex of their child, according to new revelations from a medical ethics consultant in Oslo. * Medics upset over 'gender-based' abortion (16 Feb 09) * Q-Med's beauty blogger offer 'illegal': agency (6 Feb 09) * Swedish beauty bloggers offered implant 'bribes' (4 Feb 09) These trips are a fact, according to a Swedish professor colleague. "We know that it happens as people have told us," said director Sissel Rogne at the Biotechnology Advisory Board (Bioteknologinämnden) to Svenska Dagbladet (SvD). Rogne explains that in Norway it...

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- An Ohio lawmaker on Thursday demanded that Capitol officials change a policy that resulted in the word "God" being removed from a certificate accompanying a flag being sent to one of his constituents. Republican Rep. Michael Turner urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to review and reverse a rule followed by the Architect of the Capitol that bans the use of religious expressions on flag certificates. That policy, Turner said in a letter to Pelosi signed by other Republicans, "puts at risk our religious freedoms and heritage." Turner said the constituent, Paul Larochelle, and his son Andrew had...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Scientists searching the stars for aliens are convinced an E.T. is out there -- it's just that they haven't had the know-how to detect such a being. But now technological advances have opened the way for scientists to check millions of previously unknown star systems, dramatically increasing the chances of finding intelligent life in outer space in the next 25 years, the world's largest private extraterrestrial agency believes. "We're looking for needles in the haystack that is our galaxy, but there could be thousands of needles out there," Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at California's non-profit Search...