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     COMMENTS: Duty to Preen Protested

NBC's In Depth feature by Richard Engel Wednesday offered a chilling backgrounder on the depredations suffered by women in Afghan society at the hands of their husbands. Now ABC's Nick Schifrin files a news report on the matrimonial law passed by Hamid Karzai's government that requires Shiite Moslem wives to be sexually and economically subservient. He showed us hundreds of women protesting the law in Kabul as thousands of men denounced them as "whores and dogs."

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