Gloria Allred’s Feminist Fight Has Just Begun
Gloria Allred, one of America's most famous attorneys—or infamous, depending who you ask—has been fighting for women for 42 years, and she says she’s just getting started. “Women depend on me to be strong, to be fearless and to protect their rights,” the 76-year-old attorney says in the new Netflix documentary, Seeing Allred (directed by Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman).
The ferocity of her fight and her steadfast commitment to women began after a brutal attack while she was on vacation in Mexico; her date, a doctor, pulled a gun on her. The subsequent rape led to a pregnancy that she chose to abort in pre-Roe v. Wade America—a botched procedure resulting in a hemorrhage. The nurse at the hospital told her, “This’ll teach you a lesson.”
Allred’s personal experiences helped her to understand the hundreds of women she has represented over
