Camden County · ~71,749 residents
71,749
Residents
5
Legislative district
3
Legislators
1
Abortion facility
Camden County holds the only African-American community ever incorporated as a municipality in New Jersey. Snow Hill — later Free Haven, now Lawnside — was settled by free and self-freed Black families a few miles from this city, and it was a station on the Underground Railroad. The Reverend Peter Mott built his house there in 1845 and used it to shelter people escaping slavery. It still stands, the oldest house in Lawnside, and is now a museum of the railroad it served.
What those families were escaping, New Jersey was still practising. This state was the last in the North to free its slaves: gradual abolition in 1804 that freed no living person, a second act in 1846 that renamed the enslaved "apprentices" bound to their owners, eighteen people still held in 1860, and a legislature that voted down the Thirteenth Amendment in March 1865. The people sheltering at the Mott house were fleeing the logic of gradualism as much as any single owner — the argument that some human beings' freedom is a thing to be phased in.
Snow Hill, later Free Haven and now Lawnside, was a settlement of free and self-freed Black families and a station on the Underground Railroad. The Rev. Peter Mott built his house here in 1845 and used it to shelter people escaping slavery; it still stands as the oldest house in Lawnside and is now an Underground Railroad museum. Lawnside remains the only African-American community ever incorporated as a municipality in this state.
Source: Peter Mott House Underground Railroad Museum; Lawnside Historical Society
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 Camden, or for Camden 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
One abortion facility operates in Camden, a Planned Parenthood centre on Broadway:
Planned Parenthood — Camden Center
317 Broadway, Camden, NJ 08103
(833) 377-8474
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Camden sits in Legislative District 5. Its senator and two assembly members are below, with their recorded votes on the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act.
Camden is in District 5. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this city in Trenton.
Senate · District 5 · Democrat
Assembly · District 5 · Democrat
Assembly · District 5 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Camden that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Camden. 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.
Camden is in Legislative District 5, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page with their contact details and recorded FRCA vote.
Lawnside, a few miles from Camden, is the only African-American community ever incorporated as a municipality in New Jersey. It began as Snow Hill, a settlement of free and self-freed Black families, and was a station on the Underground Railroad. The Peter Mott House, built in 1845 and used to shelter people escaping slavery, is now a museum.
No. No bill of abolition and no equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
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