Essex County · ~71,850 residents
71,850
Residents
34
Legislative district
3
Legislators
1
Abortion facility
East Orange is a city of about 72,000 in Essex County, bordering Newark to the west.
Essex County counted 1,719 Black residents in the 1800 federal census. Of them, 1,521 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: no living person freed by the 1804 act, the remaining enslaved renamed "apprentices" by the 1846 act, eighteen still held in 1860, and the Thirteenth Amendment voted down in Trenton in March 1865.
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 East Orange, 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
One abortion facility operates in East Orange, a Planned Parenthood health centre on Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard:
Planned Parenthood — East Orange Health Center
560 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd., Ste. 100, East Orange, NJ 07018
(973) 674-4343
Every abortion facility in New Jersey →
East Orange is in Legislative District 34, which it shares with Bloomfield. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
East Orange is in District 34. 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 34 · Democrat
Assembly · District 34 · Democrat
Assembly · District 34 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in East Orange that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in East Orange. 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.
East Orange is in Legislative District 34, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
New Jersey does not report the figure and publishes no count of its own. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians in the state in 2025.
The immediate and total end of abortion, criminalised as homicide, with no exceptions, from the moment of fertilisation.
