It was also one of the heaviest sentences in the country's modern legal history.

也是该国当代法律史上判刑最重的罪犯之一。

Their arguments, along with some of the justices' own understanding of the Constitution, helped change more than 130 years of legal history.

他们的争论，以及一些法官自己对于宪法的理解，帮助改变了超过130年的法律历史。

Nearly a half-century ago, when the Supreme Court decided Roe, the ruling wasn't as polarizing as it is now, says Mary Ziegler, a law professor at Florida State University and an expert on the legal history of abortion.

佛罗里达州立大学法学教授、堕胎法律史专家玛丽·齐格勒说，近半个世纪以前，最高法院对Roe案件的判决并不像现在这样两极分化。