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“DEAR ABBY” WAS DREARY CHILD OF THE AGE   Advice columnist Eppie Friedman (1918-2002), who wrote as “Ann Landers,” has received glowing obituaries celebrating her allegedly perky common-sense advice. In fact, she was an utterly predictable dyed-in-the-wool liberal on most issues of the day: feminist, pro-homosexualist, and pro-abortion. “Those groups really despise me,” she once said of conservatives, “and I’m very proud of it.” She argued that suicide is a viable option for incurably ill patients. She was once forced to apologize for dismissing Pope John Paul II as “a Polack.” For an example of the entirely unwarranted tributes she has received see: https://www.dallasnews.com/obituaries/stories/062402dnnatlandersobit.87831.html   AUSTRALIA TEEN ABORTION RATE SOARING AT 23.9 ABORTIONS PER 1000 TEENS https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/22/1023864514275.html   CHILEAN CARDINAL WARNS COUNTRY NOT TO LEGALIZE DIVORCE https://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=22606   CONTROVERSIAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD WEBSITE FOR TEENS GIVEN AWARD   The Planned Parenthood website which targets youth with graphic sexual, and sex and abortion promoting material is the winner of a “Webby” award for Best Health Web Site for 2002 by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.  https://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200206/CUL20020625d.html   UK POLL SUPPORTS REVEALING IDENTITY OF SPERM DONORS   An overwhelming majority of people believe that children conceived with donor sperm should have the right to know the genetic history of their biological parents, says a poll published yesterday. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/26/nsperm26.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/06/26/ixhome.html