搜索关注在线英语听力室公众号:tingroom,领取免费英语资料大礼包。
(单词翻译)
Abortion1 access in D.C., may be up to the GOP majority on Capitol Hill
The Supreme3 Court's decision about abortion is now decided4 by each individual state. But that's of little comfort to the 700,000 residents of Washington, D.C.
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
The Supreme Court pushed the question of abortion rights back to the states. But what does that mean for the residents of the District of Columbia, which is not a state? The fate of abortion access in the nation's capital may be left to Congress, where Washington residents don't have a vote. Martin Austermuhle of member station WAMU explains.
MARTIN AUSTERMUHLE, BYLINE5: Washington, D.C., is heavily Democratic, and virtually all of its elected officials say that abortion will remain legal in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling. But that may not last long, mostly because it's not up to them.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON: Because we do not have statehood, we are subservient6 still to the House and the Senate.
AUSTERMUHLE: Eleanor Holmes Norton is the city's non-voting representative in Congress. Even though Washington's residents have elected a mayor and local legislators for the last 50 years, the city remains7 a federal district under the control of Congress. And that means a Republican majority on Capitol Hill could act to outlaw8 abortion in the nation's capital, regardless of what the city's locally elected officials want.
In the past, congressional Republicans have tried to restrict abortion access in Washington. Bo Shuff is the director of DCVote, a group pushing for statehood.
BO SHUFF: We still see what's called the Dornan Amendment9 in place - it's been in place, I think, since the '90s - that prevents us from using local funds for abortion care for low-income women.
AUSTERMUHLE: Congressional Republicans have tried to outlaw abortions10 past 20 weeks and prohibit the procedure in any of the city's public hospitals, but those efforts were blocked by Democrats11. A bill that would make Washington, D.C., the 51st state has passed the House twice in recent years, but has stalled in the Senate. Shuff says Senate Democrats should eliminate the filibuster12 to allow the statehood bill to pass with a simple majority. That's the same move abortion-rights activists13 are pushing for to enshrine those protections in federal law. In the meantime, Washington's local officials are urging voters outside the city to help Democrats hold the House in November, one of the few protections they say exists to help keep abortion legal in the city.
For NPR News, I'm Martin Austermuhle in Washington.
1 abortion | |
n.流产,堕胎 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2 transcript | |
n.抄本,誊本,副本,肄业证书 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3 supreme | |
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4 decided | |
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5 byline | |
n.署名;v.署名 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6 subservient | |
adj.卑屈的,阿谀的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7 remains | |
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8 outlaw | |
n.歹徒,亡命之徒;vt.宣布…为不合法 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9 amendment | |
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
10 abortions | |
n.小产( abortion的名词复数 );小产胎儿;(计划)等中止或夭折;败育 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
11 democrats | |
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
12 filibuster | |
n.妨碍议事,阻挠;v.阻挠 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
13 activists | |
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
本文本内容来源于互联网抓取和网友提交,仅供参考,部分栏目没有内容,如果您有更合适的内容,欢迎 点击提交 分享给大家。