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Yet the Del-Em remained quietly in use here and there, conveyed from one generation to the next. [qh]
然而，Del-Em仍然悄悄地在各地使用，代代相传。[qh]
This was in part because of continued fears that abortion rights would again be curtailed—an event that may now be imminent if the Supreme Court upholds statewide bans.[qh]
这在一定程度上是因为人们仍然担心堕胎权会再次受到限制--如果最高法院支持全州的禁令，这一事件现在可能马上就要发生。[qh]
But it was also because of a desire among some women to maintain control over their bodies, without oversight from the medical profession, regardless of Roe’s status.[qh]
但这也是因为一些女性希望保持对自己身体的控制，而不受医疗行业的监督，不受罗伊案件判决状况的影响。[qh]
Activists are still tinkering with Rothman’s design.[qh]
活动人士仍在对罗斯曼的设计进行修修补补。[qh]
One added a second valve. [qh]
一个人装备增加了第二个阀门。[qh]
Another upgraded the suction, explaining, “It’s like going from a pogo stick to a Lamborghini.” [qh]
另一个人则升级了抽吸装置，解释说，“这就像从弹簧单高跷改进到兰博基尼一样。”[qh]
An American midwife living in Canada told me about repurposing an automotive brake-bleeding kit: “You just add a cannula onto the end.”[qh]
一位住在加拿大的美国助产士告诉我，要重新调整制动器排气套件：“你只需在末端加一个插管即可。”[qh]
She estimated that she had performed hundreds of abortions, using the Del-Em but also other methods, including medical-grade manual vacuum-aspiration kits and pharmaceuticals. [qh]
她估计她已经进行了数百次堕胎手术，不仅使用了Del-Em装置，还使用了其他方法，包括医用级别的手动真空吸引器以及药物。[qh]
The midwife is part of a network of self-described “community providers”—a term for people who perform abortions and offer other reproductive-health-care services outside the medical system.[qh]
这位助产士是自称“社区服务提供者”网络的一部分，“社区服务提供者”是指在医疗系统之外实施堕胎和提供其他生殖保健服务的人。[qh]
Before the coronavirus pandemic, she traveled and taught in-person workshops throughout the U.S. and Canada. [qh]
在冠状病毒疫情之前，她在美国和加拿大各地出差，在面对面的研讨会上进行教授。[qh]
She now teaches online. Ellie learned to build a Del-Em in one of her classes.[qh]
她现在在网上进行教授。埃莉在她的一堂课上学会了制造一个Del-Em装置。[qh]
For Ellie, the Del-Em was more symbolic than pragmatic—an amulet from the past to carry into an uncertain future. [qh]
对埃莉来说，Del-Em更多的是象征性的，而非实用的--一个来自过去的，可以带到不确定的未来的护身符。[qh]
After all, pharmaceuticals can now be used to end pregnancies in the first trimester, when more than 90 percent of legal abortions occur.[qh]
毕竟，药物现在可以在前三个月用来终止怀孕，超过90%的合法堕胎发生在这段时间。[qh]
(Almost 99 percent of abortions occur within the first 20 weeks.) [qh]
(几乎99%的堕胎发生在最初的20周内。)[qh]
There are also modern, mass-produced manual vacuum-aspiration devices for doing what the Del-Em does. [qh]
还有现代化的、批量生产的手动真空抽吸设备，可以做Del-Em所做的事情。[qh]
Community providers have talked about stockpiling such supplies in case Roe falls. [qh]
社区服务提供者已经讨论了囤积这样的物资，以防止推翻罗伊案件。[qh]
Ellie has coined a term for people who share that outlook: “vaginal preppers.”[qh]
埃莉为持这种观点的人创造了一个术语：“阴道末日准备者”。[qh]
Given the uncertainties, she suggested, it couldn’t hurt to have a do-it-yourself tool like the Del-Em.[qh]
考虑到不确定性，她表示，拥有像Del-Em这样的自制工具并不会有什么坏处。[qh]
“Just knowing the people who came before you had other ways of managing these things, not necessarily through a doctor or condoned by a government—there’s something really powerful in that,” she said.[qh]
“只要知道在你之前的人有其他方法来处理这些事情，不一定是通过医生或得到政府的允许--这真的很有力量。”她说。[qh]
As Ellie packed her supplies back into a tote bag, she told me to take the Del-Em. [qh]
当埃莉把她的供应品装回手提袋时，她告诉我去拿Del-Em。[qh]
She gave me the speculum, too.[qh]
她也给了我扩张器。[qh]
