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Cash-strapped hospitals are banning hundreds of women from having a caesarean birth, it emerged today.
有消息称，由于医院资金紧张，英国成百上千位孕妇被禁止剖腹产子。
A number of NHS trusts have said they will only give the go-ahead for a c-section if the woman's health would be put at risk by a natural birth. They have launched the crackdown on women who are 'too posh to push' – saying it wastes millions of pounds of NHS money every year.
英国国民卫生服务体系（NHS）基金会所辖的多家医疗机构表示，只有当孕妇顺产面临危险时，才会允许剖腹产。这对那些号称“分娩用力不时髦”的孕妇们是个不小的打击。据称，剖腹产每年会浪费掉NHS上百万英镑的资金。
Most hospitals already discourage women from having c-sections by outlining the potential risks to both mother and baby.
大多数医院已经劝孕妇们不要进行剖腹产，向她们描绘出剖腹产对母婴的潜在风险。
But now some trusts are going further by ruling them out on financial rather than medical grounds – meaning it will be even harder for women to get a caesarean on the Health Service. Some mothers have attacked the restrictions, saying it should be a woman's right to choose how their baby is born.
但如今，不少基金会成员医院出于经济原因，而不是医疗原因下了剖腹产禁令，这意味着英国女性想在NHS体系内进行剖腹产更困难了。一些妈妈们抨击了这一禁令，称怎么生宝宝是女人的权利。
One quarter of all births in the UK are now by caesarean section, up from just 9 percent in 1980, despite a campaign by the World Health Organisation which believes there is no justification for any country having a rate exceeding 15 percent.
英国剖腹产的比例目前是四分之一，而1980年这一比例仅有9%。世界卫生组织发起的一项活动称，任何国家的剖腹产率高于15%都是不合理的。
A planned caesarean costs around £2,600 – much more than the £1,200 cost of a natural birth without complications; taking money from strained NHS budgets away from other priorities such as heart disease and cancer.
一次有计划的剖腹产费用大约在2600英镑左右，而顺产只需1200英镑，要低得多，而且不会引起并发症。NHS的预算本来就捉襟见肘，钱应该优先用于治疗心脏病、癌症等疾病。
Economists estimate that a drop of 1 percent in the proportion of women having the surgery would save the NHS some £5.6million a year.
经济学家估计，剖腹产率每下降1个百分点，NHS每年就可以节省560万英镑。
