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Gloria Rachel Allred (''née'' Bloom; born July 3, 1941) is an American civil rights lawyer who is noted for taking high-profile and often controversial cases; she has been particularly involved with cases involving the protection of women's rights. ''The New Republic'' has called her "a longtime master of the press conference." ==Early life and family== Gloria Rachel Bloom was born into a Jewish working-class family of Philadelphia on July 3, 1941. Her father worked as a salesman; her British-born mother was a housewife. After graduating from the Philadelphia High School for Girls, she attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she met her first husband, Peyton Bray. The couple had their only child, Lisa, on September 20, 1961, and divorced shortly after. Lisa Bloom is also an attorney and is best known as a former Court TV anchor. Gloria Bloom moved back in with her parents and continued her education. In 1963, she earned a bachelor's degree in English. With encouragement of her professor, she wrote her honors thesis on Armenian writers. She tried her hand at a variety of jobs before she decided to become a teacher, taking a position at Benjamin Franklin High School. She began work on a graduate degree at New York University. After earning a master's degree, she continued as a teacher and, in 1966, moved to Los Angeles, California and lived in Glendale where many Armenians live. During a vacation in Acapulco in 1966, Bloom was raped at gunpoint by a Mexican doctor.〔Allred 2006, p. 17〕 She discovered she was pregnant and sought an abortion, which was illegal for doctors to perform at the time. After undergoing the procedure, she began hemorrhaging and became infected, only recovering after being hospitalized.〔Allred 2006, p. 18〕She did not report the rape, she said, because she didn't think anyone would believe her.〔http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/05/celebrity.lawyer.allred/〕 In 1968, she married William Allred. She enrolled in Southwestern University School of Law and later transferred to Loyola University School of Law in Los Angeles. Allred graduated and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1975.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The State Bar of California: Gloria Rachel Allred )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gloria Allred, Attorney )〕 Allred divorced her husband in 1987, retaining her married name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gloria Allred」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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