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Charlie Gard: Peace at last
查理·加德：終于平靜
A fraught case over the care of a desperately ill baby comes to a close.
關注一個絕癥患兒的令人頭疼案子結束了。
After five months of agonising court battles, on July 24th the parents of Charlie Gard, an 11-month-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder, ended their fight to keep their son alive.
經過了五個月痛苦的法庭斗爭，一個患有罕見遺傳性疾病的11個月大的男孩兒-----查理加德的父母在7月24日結束了為維持他們兒子生命的戰斗。
They had wanted to take him to America to receive an experimental treatment that his doctors in Britain argued was not in his interests.
他們曾想帶他去美國治療，因為他們所在的英國的醫生認為這并不是他們能夠解決的。
The case has raised intense debate around the world about the limits of the power of parents and the state.
這起案件引起了全世界關于父母和國家權力界限的激烈討論。
Charlie suffers from encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, a condition that causes the body's cells and then its organs to shut down.
查理患有腦病線粒體DNA衰竭綜合癥，這導致了身體細胞和器官衰竭。
It has resulted in severe brain damage.
這也導致了嚴重的腦損傷。
He is unable to breathe unaided.
他無法獨立呼吸。
His doctors at Great Ormond Street hospital (GOSH) in London say that, as far as they can tell, he has no awareness.
他在倫敦大奧蒙德街醫院的醫生說，據他們看來，他沒有意識。
Connie Yates and Chris Gard, his parents, wanted him to receive nucleoside bypass therapy, which they believed could repair his damaged DNA.
查理的父母（康妮·耶茨和克里斯·加德）希望他可以接受核苷搭橋治療，他們認為這能修復他受損的DNA。
No one with Charlie's condition has ever received it.
從來沒有一個像查理這種情況的人接受過這樣的治療。
His doctors argued that he had suffered irreversible neurological damage and any chance of the therapy helping had passed.
醫生們說查理已經遭受了不可逆的神經系統損害并且已經錯過了任何治療幫助的可能。
They said he should instead receive palliative care.
他們認為查理應該接受保守治療。
Doctors providing second opinions agreed.
這一意見得到了副主治醫師們的同意。
In April a judge, Mr Justice Nicholas Francis, ruled that GOSH could stop providing life-support treatment.
今年四月，法官尼古拉斯·弗蘭西斯宣判：倫敦大奧蒙德街醫院應該阻止生命支持的治療。
The Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights each upheld the decision.
上訴法院、最高法院和歐洲人權法院都支持這個判決。
A neurologist at Columbia University, Michio Hirano, offered to carry out the experimental treatment and Charlie's parents crowd-funded 1.3m pounds ($1.7m) to pay for it.
哥倫比亞大學的神經學家平野道雄博士表示可以為孩子進行實驗性治療，查理的父母也為此籌集了130萬英鎊（170萬美元）。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
