Essex County · ~55,416 residents
55,416
Residents
34
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Bloomfield is a township of about 55,000 in Essex County, between Newark and Montclair.
Essex counted 1,719 Black residents in the 1800 federal census and 1,521 of them were enslaved — nearly nine in ten. The county that became the commercial centre of New Jersey built that position while holding people as property, and the state took another six decades to stop. The 1804 act freed nobody living. The 1846 act renamed those still held as "apprentices" bound to their present owners. Eighteen people remained enslaved in 1860.
Essex County counted 1,719 Black residents in 1800, of whom 1,521 were enslaved. The county that would become the state's industrial and commercial centre built that position while holding people as property.
Source: 1800 federal census, as compiled by the New Jersey Slavery Records project
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 Bloomfield, or for Essex 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 Bloomfield. Two are recorded in neighbouring Montclair.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Bloomfield Township.
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Bloomfield is in Legislative District 34, which it shares with East Orange. Its three legislators are below.
Bloomfield Township is in District 34. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this municipality 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 34 · Democrat
Assembly · District 34 · Democrat
Assembly · District 34 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Bloomfield Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Bloomfield Township. 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.
Bloomfield is in Legislative District 34, shared with East Orange. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
Two are recorded in Montclair, which borders Bloomfield to the west. Both are mapped on our abortion facilities page.
No. No bill of abolition and no equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
