評論
打印
The Supreme Court itself has already endorsed limits after 24 weeks, the point at which a fetus is considered to be viable outside the womb, putting it squarely alongside public opinion.
最高法院本身已贊同懷孕24周后禁止墮胎，因為此時胎兒在子宮外可存活。最高法院的態(tài)度正好與近來的民意一致。
The best way forward would be to pass legislation to this effect.
要達到該目的，如今最好的辦法就是立法。
But there is no chance of that, because the two sides are farther apart than ever, with some pro-choice groups arguing that abortion is an absolute right that cannot be restricted under any circumstances, and their pro-life opponents retorting that all abortions are acts of murder.
但這幾乎不可能，因為重選擇與重生命雙方在墮胎問題上的分歧比以往更大。重選擇的一方認為墮胎是一種絕對權(quán)利，在任何情況下都不能被限制；而重生命的一方則反駁，認為所有的墮胎都是謀殺行為。
The shift to the extremes has been most noticeable among Republicans.
走極端這種問題在共和黨內(nèi)最為明顯。
Marco Rubio, who currently looks a good bet to win his party's presidential nomination, is in favour of any law that promises to reduce the number of abortions, even one without exclusions for rape or incest.
目前最有可能贏得共和黨總統(tǒng)提名的馬克羅·魯比奧，支持任何承諾能減少墮胎數(shù)量的法律，即使那份法案沒有排除強奸和亂倫。
In the past four years state legislatures have put in place 231 restrictions on abortions—more than in the whole of the previous decade.
在過去的四年里，州議會已實施了231項限制墮胎的規(guī)定，比過去十年加起來的都多。
Bill of rights
權(quán)利法案
To make abortion safe, legal and rare remains a good aim for America's laws.
使墮胎的安全化、合法化及減少墮胎仍是美國法律追求的目標。
But closing legal abortion clinics does nothing for safety, whatever the proponents of the Texan law claim.
不管德州墮胎法的支持者怎么說，關(guān)閉合法的墮胎診所對墮胎的安全性沒有任何幫助。
If such restrictions are adopted more widely, abortion will, in practice, become illegal in many places, leading to the return of dangerous, clandestine procedures.
如果更多地區(qū)采用這些限制條例，那么墮胎實際上在很多地方將不合法，而那些危險隱秘的墮胎程序?qū)⒒貧w，
It will not necessarily become rarer.
墮胎不一定會更少。
Whatever the law, abortions will be carried out.
不管法律怎么限制，墮胎總會存在。
The appeals court which upheld HB2 earlier this year acknowledged as much when it wrote that Texans who wanted an abortion could in future drive to New Mexico.
今年年初，支持HB2的上訴法院指出，想要墮胎的德州人未來可以開車到新墨西哥州進行，這樣的論調(diào)也承認了法律限制墮胎的有限作用。
Factors other than its legality are more important in lowering the abortion rate.
相比墮胎的合法性，其他因素對降低墮胎率的作用更為重大。
Between 2002 and 2011—just before some states began to pile on restrictions—America's abortion rate dropped by 14%, largely because the rate of teenage pregnancy fell.
2002年至2011年間，即一些州出臺墮胎限制條令之前，美國的墮胎率下降14%，這主要是因為少女懷孕率降低了。
That nine unelected justices can do a better job of reflecting what America, in aggregate, favours than thousands of elected politicians in Washington or state capitols—as they did when ruling for gay marriage—is a painful indictment of American politics.
總的來說，與華盛頓或州議會選舉出的數(shù)千名政客相較，最高法院那9名未經(jīng)選舉的法官似乎更能理解與反映美國所推崇的文化。正如在裁決同性婚姻問題時他們的做法一般。那是對美國政治活動的控訴，
It is nevertheless true.
盡管有點痛苦，卻是真的。
Despite the reaction it will provoke, the court should strike down HB2.
不管會引發(fā)什么連鎖反應，最高法院都應該駁回HB2。翻譯：葉露 校對 戴秀平
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