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SHE’S BEING FIGHTING FOR WONEN FOR 24 YEARS, BUT ATTORNEY Gloria Allred, 76, says she’s just getting started. “Women depend on me to be strong, to be fearless and to protect their rights,” says the star of the new Netflix documentary Seeing Allred. Her ferocity and steadfast commitment to women began after a brutal attack when she was a young woman 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, and the botched procedure resulted in a hemorrhage and high fever. The female nurse at the hospital told her, “This’ll teach you a lesson.”
Allred’s personal experiences help her understand the hundreds of women she has represented over her long career, including accusers of Bill Cosby and Donald Trump. In the documentary, she describes the modern world as a war zone for women, “with real consequences—emotional, physical, financial, social—every way, every day.” And, as she tells Newsweek, the fight has just begun.