Feminists of a certain age warned us this would happen. They warned that the complacency of women of all ages, but particularly younger women, could end up returning us to the dark ages, politically speaking. But these doomsday scenarios often involved dire warnings around the political powderkeg of abortion. Become “politically lazy” the warning went, and we could find ourselves reliving the bad-old days of back alleys and coat hangers.
 
But it turns out that when it comes to protecting women's lives and political rights, the right to choose is the least of our problems. 
It is hard to believe that in the year 2010, women of all races, ages and socio-economic classes still find themselves struggling to enjoy the most basic human right: the right to remain safe from physical harm, particularly in one’s own home. And yet in the last year, case after high profile case has reminded us that while women may have begun to shatter the glass ceiling in corporate America, inHollywood and even in the big House, the most dangerous place for many women remains to be their own home.