Thought for today: I'm grateful to be a woman in America, and sad for Afghan women.
The August 20 election looks dim for Shia women with the impending law to strip away their rights.
The law essentially gives a husband the right to withdraw basic maintenance from his wife, including food, if she refuses to obey his sexual demands. It grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers. It requires women to get permission from their husbands to work. It also effectively allows a rapist to avoid prosecution by paying “blood money” instead of going to prison.
It seems unthinkable for this to happen in the year 2009, but it's happening!!
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Yes we are lucky to be American but women still aren't equal here either
ReplyDeleteshit those laws!!!!!people should treat womwn like evry other people!!
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