Hudson County · ~74,532 residents
74,532
Residents
31
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Bayonne occupies the peninsula between Newark Bay and the Kill van Kull, at the southern end of Hudson County.
Hudson County did not exist until 22 February 1840. Before that this was Bergen County — and Bergen held more enslaved people than anywhere else in New Jersey. The 1800 census counted 2,825 enslaved residents there, 18.6% of the entire population of the county. Slavery in this corner of the state was not a distant southern institution; it was the ordinary arrangement of the Dutch farm households that preceded the city. The county line moved in 1840. The history did not.
Hudson County did not exist until 22 February 1840. Everything in it — Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken, Union City, North Bergen, West New York — was part of Bergen County before that, and Bergen held more enslaved people than any other county in the state: 2,825 of them in the 1800 census, 18.6% of everyone living there. The county line moved. The history did not.
Abortion reporting to the CDC is voluntary, and New Jersey is one of four jurisdictions that declines. Its own Department of Health publishes no count of induced terminations, by county or statewide. The state that wrote abortion access into its statutes does not record how often it happens.
There is no figure for Bayonne, or for Hudson County, because there is no figure for anywhere in New Jersey. The best available independent estimate is 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians statewide in 2025.
Sources: CDC, Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2022 (MMWR Surveillance Summaries) · Guttmacher Institute, Monthly Abortion Provision Study
No abortion facility in our directory operates inside Bayonne.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Bayonne.
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Bayonne is in Legislative District 31, which it shares with part of Jersey City. Its three legislators are below.
Bayonne is in District 31. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this city in Trenton.
“No recorded vote” means the member was not serving when the bill was voted on in January 10, 2022. It is not an abstention, and we do not present it as one.
Senate · District 31 · Democrat
Assembly · District 31 · Democrat
Assembly · District 31 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Bayonne that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Bayonne. We read every New Jersey congregation in the directory we work from — 106 of them — and found one in the whole state, in Glassboro. Abolitionists Rising, the movement's own national organisation, lists the same single church on its New Jersey page and no others. That is not a gap in the research. It is the situation.
If your church has taken a public position on abolition — from the pulpit, in a resolution, or in its own published words — tell us and we will verify it and list it here.
Bayonne is in Legislative District 31, shared with part of Jersey City. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
Hudson County was created from Bergen County in 1840. Bergen held more enslaved people than any other county in New Jersey — 2,825 in the 1800 census, 18.6% of its population. Everything now in Hudson County was inside Bergen while that was true.
No. Neither a bill of abolition nor an equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
