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RAPE VICTIM ALLEGES BLACKMAIL BY LIBERAL CABINET MEMBER An 18-year old woman who claims that Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s adopted son sexually assaulted her has said that Liberal Cabinet member Ethel Blondin-Andrew warned her not to press charges.  https://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2002-07/jul26_02pmo.html   FAMED CANADIAN FIDDLER STANDS UP FOR HER BELIEFS INCLUDING PRO-LIFE https://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1027591330975&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News   OUTSPOKENLY PRO-LIFE GERMAN CARDINAL DIES Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (76), archbishop of Paderborn, died Thursday of heart failure.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62567-2002Jul25.html   FERTILITY TREATMENT PERILS SHOWN AS WOMAN PREGNANT WITH NINE BABIES https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=573&e=3&u=/nm/20020725/od_nm/pregnancy_dc_1   MALAYSIA GOV’T CONSIDERING LEGALIZING ABORTION IN CASES OF INCEST AND RAPE https://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/7/26/nation/ihabort&sec=nation   CHILDREN CREATED WITH DONOR SPERM WIN IDENTITY BATTLE   Children created with donated sperm have won an important legal ruling in their battle to discover more about their biological fathers. A High Court judge decided that they were entitled to use Human Rights legislation to ask the courts for more information.  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2153431.stm   SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ORDERS HOMOSEXUALS TO BE GIVEN SAME BENEFITS AS MARRIEDS https://library.northernlight.com/FC20020726330000183.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc