Summer camps in ohio for kids: 2023 Northeast Ohio Summer Camps

Summer Camp in Ohio for Kids and Teens

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Where Good Things Happen by Design

At Falcon Camp, we have designed an intentional program aimed at creating a summer of fun, adventure and learning for our campers. Through programs designed to increase independence, self-confidence and self-discovery, we encourage campers to choose what they like, and excel in those activities. With a 1:4 camper to counselor ratio, your camper will feel supported, mentored and supervised throughout their time with us. Located in the woods on a lake in Carrollton, Ohio, our camp provides a unique, off-the-grid experience for young people aged 6-16. We also run a special, one-week Young Adventures program designed specifically for our first-time campers between the ages of 6 and 10. 

“Best two weeks of my life!” – Finn T.

Parents and campers alike love the Falcon Camp experience. Check out our testimonials to see what they have to say about their summers with us.

Traditional Residential Camp

Celebrating outdoor fun since 1959, Falcon Camp is designed for children to develop skills, meet friends and have fun. Recognized as Ohio’s premier private summer camp, Falcon Camp allows campers the opportunity to learn, discover, grow and live our motto of “Fun for Now, Skills for Life.”

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Young Adventures Summer Camp

Let your young boys and girls (ages 6 to 10) get their first experience of overnight camp with this special one-week program. Each Falcon Young Adventurer will get to enjoy all the activities Falcon Camp has to offer with a little more supervision and instruction.

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Our History

We began on the shores of Leesville Lake in 1959 with 18 campers and one building. Today, Falcon Camp helps boys and girls alike get a true summer camp experience while allowing them to learn lifelong skills and make lasting memories. It’s what makes Falcon Camp one of the best summer camps in Ohio.

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What Makes Us Special

What makes Falcon Camp different from other summer camps in Ohio? We can’t quite explain it. It’s something in the air here. It runs through the veins of every camper and counselor. It’s something you have to experience for yourself. One thing that is easy to see is how happy everyone is to be at Falcon Camp.

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Camp Resources

Find out why summer camp is more important than ever for your child, explore the top six qualities of a great sleepaway camp, and more. Our resources page is your go-to summer camp guide. Learn more about traditional camp and how it can benefit your child, helping them succeed and thrive in life.

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Key Staff

Falcon Camp counselors are vital to creating an experience that your child will remember forever. That’s why the members of our staff (many of whom are former Falcon campers themselves) are carefully selected and trained to provide your child with a safe and educational environment.

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Southwest Ohio Summer Camps Your Kids Will Love

Falcon Camp

Recognized throughout the midwest as Ohio’s premier summer camp since 1959. Beautiful lakefront setting, talented experienced staff and wide variety of activities. Campers choose own schedules within general framework. Most of all it’s great fun! Special intro for 6-10 year olds. ACA accredited. At Falcon, ‘Good Things Happen by Design.

Phone: (216) 991-2489
Address: 4251 Delta Rd SW, Carrollton, OH 44615
Camp Dates: June 18 -August 21, 2023 in various session lengths.

Virtual Camp Fair Page: Falcon Camp

Camp-A-Palooza at Kids First Sports Center

CAMP-A-PALOOZA is Greater Cincinnati’s most talked about summer camp experience! Why? Four words: Kids First Sports Center…108,000 square feet of kids sports heaven! Every day is a themed, non–stop, in and outdoor adventure. From morning drop–off to evening pick–up, you’ll experience crafts, talent shows, water slides, sports instruction, science experiments, agricultural projects and more!

Phone: (513) 489-7575
Address: 7900 East Kemper Road Cincinnati, OH 45249
Camp Dates: May 30- August 19, 2023

Virtual Camp Fair Page: Camp-A-Palooza at Kids First Sports Center

YMCA of Greater Cincinnati Day Camp

Overnight, day and specialty camps at the Y are all about discovery. Kids have the opportunity to explore nature, find new talents, try new activities, gain independence, and make lasting friendships and memories. And, of course, it’s fun too! Offerings include Themed Day Camps, Preschool Camps, Teen Camps, Counselor-in-Training programs, and Specialty Camps.

Phone: (513) 310-1937
Address: Multiple locations throughout the city
Camp Dates: May through August 2023

Virtual Camp Fair Page: YMCA of Greater Cincinnati Day Camp

Snapology of West Chester

Snapology’s vision is to create a fun environment for children to play and learn. Snapology strives to introduce children to STEM through educational play. Our programs are focused on building confidence while developing problem solving and iterative learning skills. We are committed to developing the next generation of scientists, mathematicians, engineers, inventors, robotics experts & leaders!

Phone: (513) 988-7363
Address: Various locations, West Chester Twp, OH 45069
Camp Dates: All weeks in June and July, some weeks in August 2023

Virtual Camp Fair Page: Snapology of West Chester

Cincinnati Shakespeare’s Theatre Summer Camp

Join Cincinnati’s most buzzed about professional theater company downtown for Cincinnati Shakespeare’s Theatre Summer Camp! We offer unique & fun programs for beginners to advanced students to engage with the arts. These in-person camps take place at our new theater Monday-Friday 9am-5pm for students who have completed grades 1 up to 12.

Phone: (513) 381-2273
Address: 1195 Elm Street Cincinnati, OH 45202
Camp Dates: June and July 2023 (see cincyshakes.com/summercamp for exact dates)

Virtual Camp Fair Page: Cincinnati Shakespeare’s Theatre Summer Camp

Midpointe Library Summer Reading Program

MidPointe Library System is bringing you a season of fun with its annual Summer Reading Program. Pick up a “All Together Now” activity map and create your own adventure by completing challenges to win prizes. Families can enjoy activities together, exploring new books or finding fun around the house and in your community.

Phone: (513) 424-1251
Address: Available at all MidPointe Library System locations: West Chester, Middletown, Liberty Township, Monroe & Trenton
Camp Dates: June 1- July 31 2023

The Lost Art’s Summer Etiquette Camp

TLA’s Enrichment Etiquette Camp’s a five-day camp full of fun, new adventures, education, and interactive games and activities. Campers will create a make-believe Kids’ Business, ABCs of Table manners, the foundation for Acts of Kindness, dining etiquette skills, introductions, and writing thank-you notes while attending each day and much more.

Phone: (888) 354-4639
Camp Dates:  June 12 – 16, 2023

Virtual Camp Fair Page: The Lost Art’s Summer Etiquette Enrichment Camp

Summer Art Camp

Whether your child is thinking about becoming an artist or just enjoys making art, the Taft’s small camp classes, guided by experienced teachers, will make this a summer of fun. Week-long camps will have campers painting, sculpting, and drawing.

Phone: (513) 484-4533
Address: 316 Pike Street Cincinnati, OH 45202
Camp Dates: Entering grades 1–3: June 5-9, June 12-16 | 9am – 4pm
Entering grades 4–6: June 19-23, June 26-30 | 9am – 4pm
Entering grades 7–12: July 10-14 | 9am – 4pm

Virtual Camp Fair Page: Summer Art Camp at Taft Theatre

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Summer Theatre Camp and Performance Academy

The Playhouse’s Summer Theatre Camp and Performance Academy build confidence, strengthen communication skills and develop community. Camps focus on individual and collective development in a fun, supportive and skills-based environment. Full-day, one-week and multi-week options return to the Playhouse’s Eden Park location and are also offered Mason Community Center.

Phone: (513) 421-3888
Address: 862 Mt. Adams Circle, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Camp Dates: June 5 – August 1, 2023

Summit Summer at the Summit Country Day School

The Summit Country Day School welcomes students from the tri-state area to enjoy summer in-person on our Hyde Park campus. With programs for children ages 3-grade 12, parents can take comfort knowing that your child is exploring their curious nature, enjoying time with friends and exploring a new topic or hobby. Both full-day and half-day camps are available. Registration is open now.

Phone: (513) 381-2273
Address: 2161 Grandin Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230
Camp Dates: May 30 to August 4, 2023

Virtual Camp Fair Page: The Summit Country Day Summer Camp

Cincinnati Reds Baseball & Softball Camps

The summer of 2023 marks the 12th year of Reds Baseball/Softball Camps. Camp is for players 6-14. Campers will receive 30hrs of instruction, a full Reds uniform, 4 tickets to a game, VIP trip to Great American Ball Park, and a Q&A with a current Reds player.

Phone: (855) 846-7337
Address: Various locations
Camp Dates: May 29-August 11, 2023

Goldfish Swim School – West Chester

Look into Summer Jump Start Clinics at Goldfish Swim School! Everybody in the pool! Goldfish Swim School provides swim instruction to children ages 4 months to 12-years-old in a unique setting with highly trained instructors, small class sizes (max 4:1 student to teacher ratio), shiver-free 90-degree pools, and a state-of-the-art water purification system.

In addition to weekly swim lessons, Goldfish Swim School also offers Jump Start Clinics during the summer months. This is our version of swim camp! Jump Start Clinics are five consecutive days of 30-minute swim lessons that focus on everything from the fundamentals of water safety to fine-tuning stroke technique. Students make a month’s worth of progress in just a week!

Phone: (513) 857-1700
Address: 7058 Ridgetop Dr., West Chester, OH 45069
Camp Dates: June 1- August 18, 2023

Aqua-Tots Swim School

Aqua-Tots Swim Schools has been saving lives for over 30 years all over the world. With summer months filled with pool parties, beaches, and lakes, now is the perfect time to prepare with swim lessons! Our curriculum is designed to build safe and confident swimmers for life with a focus on safe submersion, boundaries around the water, independent skills, and more! With classes each day of the week

Address & Phone: Aqua-Tots Springboro | 716 N. Main Street, Springboro, OH 45066 | (937)-886-4321 Aqua-Tots Beavercreek | 2451 Lakeview Dr., Ste. 106, Beavercreek, OH 45431 | (937)-200-1120

Camp Dates: Year-round

Code Ninjas Anderson Township

UNLEASH YOUR CHILD’S INNER NINJA!

Transform your child’s love for technology into an exciting learning adventure. Guided by our team of Code Senseis, Code Ninjas Camps empower kids to gain valuable tech skills and make new friends. It’s an unforgettably fun learning experience!

Phone: (513) 233-2633
Address: 7426 Beechmont Ave, Suite 210, Cincinnati, OH 45255
Camp Dates: June 5-August 4, 2023

Aullwood Summer Earth Adventure

Come to Aullwood Audubon for Summer Earth Adventures week-long nature camps! Camps run 9 am – 4 pm with early drop-off at 8:00 am and extended day until 5:30 pm, Monday – Friday, June 5 to August 11. Campers ages 5 – 11 will love exciting nature themes and tons of outdoor fun!

Phone: (937) 890-7360
Address: 1000 Aullwood Rd Dayton, Ohio 45414
Camp Dates: June 5-August 11, 2023

Code Ninjas Green Township

Tech-Fueled Summer Adventure Awaits: Join Our Must-Attend Summer Camps! Children aged 5-14 will explore technology, develop new skills, and have a great time with friends. Guided by our team of Code Sensei’s, we utilize critical thinking and team-building while flexing our creative muscles. An unforgettably FUN and EDUCATIONAL experience!

Phone: (513)520-9268
Address: 6507 Harrison Ave Cincinnati, Ohio 45247
Camp Dates: June 4 -August 18, 2023

90,000 A year ago, the US Supreme Court allowed the states to ban abortion. Now it is clear how disastrous the consequences of this decision were. Women die in childbirth. Doctors beaten by activists

Abortion rights supporters at a counter protest organized in parallel to the 50th annual Anti-Abortion March for Life rally in Washington, DC. January 20, 2023

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A year ago, at the end of June 2022, the US Supreme Court ruled that abortion is not a constitutional right, and the decision on its legality must be left to the discretion of the authorities of a particular state. This is what conservatives have been striving for the last 50 years – a year later, in a number of states, abortion is either completely prohibited or seriously restricted. At the request of Meduza, Yan Veselov, a political scientist and author of One Big Union, a telegram channel about American politics, talks about how the topic of abortion has divided the United States and what is happening with reproductive freedoms in the country.

In the early 1970s, many Democrats were in favor of a ban on abortion, while Republicans were against it. But then everything changed

Abortion in the United States has long been an important issue in political discussion, but it has become one of the central topics only in the last half century. In the early 1970s, an active campaign for the legalization of abortion began in the country, which was supported by both left-wing feminist groups like the National Organization for Women (NOW) and some Republican activists who believed that the state should not interfere in the personal lives of Americans. K 19In 1973, they achieved the complete or partial repeal of anti-abortion laws in 17 states, including New York and California, where Republicans Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan were then governors.

In the same year, the Supreme Court, in the famous Roe v. Wade case, recognized the constitutional right of American women to have an abortion. Despite some changes, this decision continued to be valid for 49 years and enjoyed the support of the majority of Americans. However, there were also many opponents of women’s right to abortion all these years. In addition, the ruling of the Supreme Court divided into two camps not only the population of the country, but also members of the two main political parties.

In 1969, mother-of-two Norma McCorvey became pregnant for the third time. She wanted to have an abortion, but it was forbidden in Texas. Hiding under the pseudonym Jane Roe, she decided to sue the state authorities, demanding that their law be declared unconstitutional. She successfully challenged the law first in federal court and then in the Supreme Court, where seven of the nine judges sided with her.

They made a decision on the basis of the concept of the “right to privacy” (right to privacy), which, although it was not enshrined in the Constitution textually, but, according to the judges, was assumed based on the totality of its provisions (guided by the same logic, The Supreme Court had previously declared unconstitutional prohibitions on the use of contraceptives, interracial and same-sex marriages).

Although the court recognized the right to abortion as fundamental, it still left the states the ability to legally restrict women in terminating a pregnancy depending on the term: during the first trimester, any restrictions were prohibited; during the second trimester, state authorities could already introduce them if they were aimed at protecting the health of the mother; from the third trimester, a complete ban on termination of pregnancy was allowed, with the exception of cases of a threat to the life of the mother.

The main opponents of abortion in the United States at 19In the 1970s, there were Catholics who then mostly voted for the Democratic Party, while Protestant churches, such as the largest of them, the Southern Baptist Convention, took a more moderate position, allowing partial legalization. Trying to get the votes of that part of the Democrats, in 1972 Republican Richard Nixon ran for president with an anti-abortion program – and won.

But then there was no unity on the issue of abortion either among Republicans or Democrats. Became president at 19In 1976, Republican Gerald Ford opposed the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, but was supported by his wife, Betty Ford, and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. Ford’s successor in the White House, Democrat Jimmy Carter, and young Delaware Senator (and today US President) Joe Biden personally did not agree with the legalization of abortion, although they supported it in their political decisions, while Vice President Walter Mondale was a staunch supporter of the right to abortion.

In 1977, four years after the Supreme Court decision, in one opinion poll, 39% of Republicans and 34% of Democrats said they supported the full legalization of abortion. When a constitutional amendment abolishing the right to abortion was introduced in the Senate in 1983, 31 Democrats and 19 Republicans voted against it, while 34 Republicans and 15 Democrats supported it.

By the late 1980s, Republicans and Democrats began to take more unequivocal positions on the issue of abortion. The Democrats were becoming an increasingly diverse coalition, with the growing influence of women’s rights activists, non-whites, and the LGBTQ community. And within the Republican Party, the conservative movement of the religious right began to dominate, seeking to unite Catholics and evangelical Protestants in opposition to leftist liberalism.

Lawyer Gloria Allred and her client Norma McCorvey, aka “Jane Roe”, at a Pro Choice rally in Burbank, California. July 4, 1989

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For church evangelists and activists like Phyllis Schlafly, the topic of abortion has become one of the topics of banning prayers in schools, LGBTQ rights, and rising divorce rates. Opposing the ratification of the constitutional Equal Rights Amendment, Schlafly called abortion a “tool of feminism”: “Women’s liberation is an attack on the American woman’s role as wife and mother, and on the family as the basic unit of society. Feminists are trying to make wives and mothers unhappy with their careers… They are promoting abortion instead of the family. ”

As a result, some liberal Republicans began to vote for the Democratic Party, while conservative Democrats (especially in the southern states) went to the Republicans – both parties became more homogeneous in their ideology. Politicians also got involved: for example, Republican and anti-abortion George W. Bush, who previously supported the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, became president in 1988. And in 1992, he was defeated by Democrat and supporter of the right to abortion Bill Clinton, who had previously opposed them.

In 2022, the right to abortion was declared unconstitutional. Trump helped a lot (he’s happy with himself)

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, pro-abortion Republican politicians, like anti-abortion rights Democrats, have become a small minority in both parties. And in every presidential election, Democratic candidates have talked about defending the right to abortion, while Republicans have promised to appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court who will overturn Roe v. Wade. However, at Senate hearings, the judges always refused to review it and emphasized that they respect the established precedent.

It is important to note that since the 1970s, most Supreme Court justices have been appointed by Republican presidents. But not all of them were conservative, especially on the issue of abortion. The situation changed during the presidency of Donald Trump (2017-2021), who in the late 1990s “advocated for the freedom of choice of women”, although he was “very negative” about abortion, and in the spring of 2016 during his election campaign said that he ” for life” and that his “views have changed.”

As president, Trump appointed three conservative judges at once to replace the moderate Anthony Kennedy and the liberal Ruth Ginsburg, giving the conservatives a majority of six seats to three for the liberals (Trump believes that in this way he contributed to the abolition of the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022, and proudly declares that “after 50 years of failure, I was able to kill Roe vs. Wade”).

At the same time, the authorities of the Republican states have passed anti-constitutional laws restricting abortions before, in the hope that the Supreme Court will agree to take their case for consideration after a ban by a lower court. Between 2017 and 2020, 45 states passed 250 abortion-related laws, 88% of which tightened access to abortion. Several states have gone even further by passing so-called “heartbeat laws” to ban abortions after the fifth or sixth week of pregnancy. Immediately after receiving the lawsuit, the courts recognized all these laws as unconstitutional and canceled them.

But the Conservatives nevertheless achieved their goal, and in 2021 the new composition of the Supreme Court began to consider the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which challenged the prohibition of termination of pregnancy after the 15th week of pregnancy in Mississippi. In May 2022, Politico published a draft decision in this case, from which it was clear that the right to abortion was going to be cancelled. The court recognized that the draft was genuine, but stated that it did not reflect his position. However, the final decision, issued on June 24, 2022, largely repeats this draft.

Five of the nine judges concluded that the right to terminate a pregnancy is “not enshrined in the US Constitution”, “not rooted in the history and tradition of the country”, and therefore cannot be considered “fundamental” and is subject to any restrictions by state authorities. In his decision, Judge Samuel Alito pointed out that “until the second half of the 20th century, such a right was completely unknown in American law”:

When the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was passed, three-quarters of the states made abortion a crime – at all stages of pregnancy. The decision in Roe v. Wade was wrong from the start. His reasoning was exceptionally weak, and this decision had devastating consequences. It did not resolve the issue of abortion, but only fueled debate and deepened divisions.

Conservative judge Clarence Thomas, who upheld the new decision, called for going even further and using the same arguments to declare unconstitutional and allow states to ban contraception and same-sex marriage, and criminalize homosexuality. Liberal judges noted that, guided by such logic, the court should have abolished the right to interracial marriages. Perhaps this is how they wanted to poke Thomas, an African American married to a white woman.

Clarence Thomas and his wife, conservative activist Virginia Thomas, at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. October 21, 2021

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Women from conservative states are hardest hit by the ban, especially those who don’t make very much money

By July 2023, abortion is banned in 13 states. Others—Georgia, Florida, Iowa, South Carolina, and Ohio—have introduced severe restrictions that allow abortions only in the first six weeks of pregnancy, or prohibit abortions after the 12th or 15th week of pregnancy.

In some states, bans never went into effect because local courts found them unconstitutional or blocked them pending review. In 26 states, abortion remains legal for at least the first three months of pregnancy, and in 14 of them, the right to abortion is guaranteed by the local constitution.

In addition to the legality of abortions, the issue of their availability is also acute. It is not uncommon for the entire state to have only one clinic or none at all due to numerous legal restrictions that make it difficult for them to work. Most of all, this problem affects women from the poor and socially disadvantaged, who cannot afford long trips for abortions in states where it is easier to do it.

Things are about to get tough for wealthier American women as Republican lawmakers debate criminalizing abortion travel in more liberal states.

The first such law appeared in Idaho in March 2023, although it has so far limited itself to a ban on abortions for minors without parental consent: relatives, friends or other people who will assist in an abortion can receive two to five years in prison. At the same time, local congresswoman Lauren Necochea emphasizes, minors cannot always ask their parents for permission to terminate a pregnancy.

“It could be domestic violence. These can be any circumstances that make a 17-year-old girl not feel safe in front of her parents. But maybe she has an older sister who can help her,” she explains.

Dr. Alan Braid performs a surgical abortion at the Alamo Women’s Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico. January 10, 2023

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In addition, in some states there have already been cases where the abortion ban is contrary to federal emergency law: hospitals refuse to terminate a pregnancy for medical reasons and force a woman to go through stillbirth in fear of possible persecution by the authorities.

For example, in Texas, Amanda Zurawski, along with four other women, sued the state after they were denied an abortion despite having medical complications. Speaking at a hearing in the local legislature, she said that she had an abortion only when she went into septic shock: the future.”

The situation with medical abortion drugs, their sale in local pharmacies and the ability to send them by mail is not fully understood – this creates conditions for illegal trade. A lawsuit is now pending in one of the federal courts demanding that the license of mifepristone, which is used for medical abortion, be revoked. But even if the court decides not to ban it, by law the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can challenge its order or refuse to comply with it.

If states take these steps, it will affect the lives of millions of American women. About 53% of all abortions in the United States (and 64% of abortions at an early stage, before ten weeks of pregnancy) are performed without surgery. In some states, their share exceeds 70%. About 40% of U.S. abortion clinics do it exclusively with medication – including 80 telemedicine centers that the federal government has simplified in 2021 amid the coronavirus epidemic. Medical abortion is much easier, cheaper, and more convenient; since 2000, mifepristone and another drug, misoprostol, have been used by 5.6 million women in the United States.

While there is no talk of a ban on the use of misoprostol yet, all this creates a lot of uncertainty. 19 conservative states already require patients to receive abortion drugs only in person. The FDA allowed pharmacy chains to sell mifepristone and ship it by mail, and in response, attorneys general in 20 Republican states began to threaten large drugstore chains CVS and Walgreens with prosecution for selling abortion drugs.

Moreover, during the year in these states a whole network of illegal distribution of such drugs has already developed. Mexico became the base for it, from where several organizations send mifepristone to the United States at once. Among them is Las Libres, a feminist group founded in 2000 to help survivors of domestic violence and abortions. Initially, it helped provide access to drugs for women in Mexico, but since 2022 it has switched to the United States. All medicines are sent free of charge. “We wanted to help women in Texas because we experienced first hand what they faced,” says Las Libres founder Veronica Cruz Sanchez.

At first, the organization sent about ten doses of mifepristone each day, but then the volume increased to one hundred doses. The organization exists on private donations that it receives from Mexico and the United States. Now, thanks to Las Libres, about 20,000 women in the United States perform medical abortions a year — about 20% of all legal abortions that were performed in 2019 in states where they are now completely banned. For safety, tablets are usually hidden in boxes from other drugs. Then they are sent by mail or transported across the border with the help of volunteer couriers. In the United States, about 250 volunteers cooperate with the organization, among them activists, doctors, nurses, and even priests of some churches.

The number of crimes against abortion doctors and maternal mortality (which is already very high in the country) has increased over the year in the United States. age group) live in states where abortion has been completely banned or severely restricted. The time it takes to travel for an abortion has tripled on average, from 30 minutes to over an hour and a half, and in some states like Texas and Louisiana to seven hours.

Funds that help pay for abortions for those who do not have enough funds have been forced to double the cost per patient.

The director of one of these funds, Anna Rupani notes:

Many of those who call us do it for the first time. Perhaps they never went through airport security. And now, since all the states around Texas have also banned abortion, they are forced to make these two, three, four day trips to the other side of the country.

The abortion ban has already had consequences that the authorities hardly thought about. 68% of OB/GYN practitioners report that it has led to complications in cases of serious emergency problems in women, and 64% note its negative impact on maternal mortality, which is one of the highest among developed countries in the United States. Dozens of universities are forced to abandon obstetrician-gynecologist training programs or change them so that they comply with new laws. Enrollment for similar programs in ban states is already down by 10%, and more than 75% of medical students say they don’t intend to practice there.

According to some reports, the number of abortions nationwide fell by about 3.5% in a year, and a sharp drop in the number of procedures in states where they were limited was partially offset by an increase in states with liberal laws. For example, in Illinois, the number of patients increased by 54%, and in Colorado, the proportion of people who came from other states increased from 14 to 28% – and most of them were residents of Texas. During the year, more than 60 abortion clinics closed in 20 states, but more than 40 new ones opened in the rest, often near the borders with those states where abortion is prohibited.

Reproductive rights protesters outside the New York Public Library. April 15, 2023

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According to the National Abortion Federation’s annual report, crime against abortion clinics has skyrocketed in 2022. Twice – arsons of clinics and more than three times – robberies and harassment of workers and patients. The number of death threats and mine-laying calls is on the rise. For the first time in recent decades, cases of sending envelopes with white powder and the inscription “anthrax” have become more frequent. Since more than 80% of clinics closed in the first hundred days in the states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court decision, in 2022, most of the crimes against abortion clinics occurred in states where abortion remains legal.

Most Americans are in favor of reproductive freedom. And it will be reflected in the agenda of the 2024 presidential election

According to the latest Gallup poll, 34% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in all cases, and 13% – in most cases. Another 36% are in favor of the legality of abortion only in a small number of cases, and only 13% are in favor of a complete ban. Almost 70% support the legality of termination of pregnancy during the first three months of pregnancy, but the majority are in favor of prohibitions at later stages. At the same time, 61% of respondents have a negative attitude towards the cancellation of Roe v. Wade, and 38% are positive. Similar data can be found in other surveys.

In only seven states, less than half of respondents are in favor of the legality of abortion. But none of them has much support for a complete ban on abortion (the highest figure is 14%).

Despite this, anti-abortion activists in several states are accusing Republicans of not being forceful enough in enforcing new bans and are calling on all candidates running in the GOP presidential primaries to pledge to ban abortion nationwide. Others, like Donald Trump, say the party’s extreme stance on abortion has led to poor results in the 2022 election and other campaigns. For example, in April 2023, the Democrats won a majority in the Wisconsin supreme court, and their candidate, liberal judge Janet Protasevich, promised to return legal status to abortion in the state.

Many voters (especially those who voted for the first time) do note that the attitude of candidates towards abortion was an important factor for them. In all six abortion-related referendums since the repeal of Roe v. Wade, reproductive liberties have won—even in conservative states like Ohio and Kentucky. Now activists are collecting signatures to organize referendums to introduce the right to abortion in the constitution of other states, such as Florida, Missouri, South Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma.

The topic of abortion will inevitably be reflected in the agenda of the 2024 presidential election. Despite the fact that in the 1970s Joe Biden was an opponent of reproductive freedom, now the protection of the right to abortion will be the main topic of his election campaign.

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