Passaic County · ~90,322 residents
90,322
Residents
27
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Clifton is the eleventh largest municipality in New Jersey, in the south of Passaic County between Paterson and Newark.
Passaic County was created on 7 February 1837 out of parts of Bergen and Essex — which were, in the 1800 census, the first and sixth counties in the state by enslaved population. Bergen held 2,825 people, 18.6% of everyone living there; Essex held 1,521. This ground was inside those counties while that was true. New Jersey then spent sixty years declining to finish what it had started: gradual abolition in 1804, a renaming in 1846, eighteen people still held in 1860, and a vote against the Thirteenth Amendment in March 1865.
Passaic County was created on 7 February 1837 from parts of Bergen and Essex. Those were the first and sixth counties in New Jersey by enslaved population in 1800 — Bergen with 2,825 people held, Essex with 1,521. Paterson, Clifton, Passaic and Wayne were inside them.
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 Clifton, or for Passaic 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 Clifton. The nearest are in Paterson to the north and Montclair to the south.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Clifton.
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Clifton is in Legislative District 27. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Clifton is in District 27. 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 27 · Democrat
Assembly · District 27 · Democrat
Assembly · District 27 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Clifton that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Clifton. 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.
Clifton is in Legislative District 27, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
The nearest facilities in our directory are the Planned Parenthood centre in Paterson and two in Montclair. All of them are mapped on our abortion facilities page.
New Jersey does not say. It publishes no count and does not report to the CDC. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 in 2025.
