Somerset County · ~46,871 residents
46,871
Residents
23
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Bridgewater is a township of about 47,000 in Somerset County, along the Raritan in the centre of the state.
Somerset held more enslaved people than any New Jersey county except Bergen. The 1800 census counted 1,863 enslaved residents here — 14.5% of everyone living in the county — and from 1737 until 1800 the densest slaveholding in the state was consistently in Bergen, Monmouth and Somerset. New Jersey then took until 1865 to finish letting go, and only after its Legislature had voted the Thirteenth Amendment down once and been replaced at an election.
Somerset County held 1,863 enslaved people in 1800 — 14.5% of its population, the second-highest concentration in New Jersey. From 1737 until 1800 the densest slaveholding in the state was consistently in Bergen, Monmouth and Somerset.
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 Bridgewater, or for Somerset 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 Bridgewater Township. The nearest is the Planned Parenthood Franklin Township Center, addressed to Somerset.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Bridgewater Township.
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Bridgewater is in Legislative District 23. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Bridgewater Township is in District 23. 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 23 · Republican
Assembly · District 23 · Republican
Assembly · District 23 · Republican
Congregations we know of in Bridgewater Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Bridgewater 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.
Bridgewater is in Legislative District 23, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
Somerset held 1,863 enslaved people in the 1800 census — 14.5% of its population, second only to Bergen County. From 1737 to 1800 the densest slaveholding in New Jersey was in Bergen, Monmouth and Somerset.
No. Neither a bill of abolition nor an equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
