Middlesex County · ~110,002 residents
110,002
Residents
18
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Edison is the sixth largest municipality in New Jersey and sits in Middlesex County, in the middle of the state.
The 1800 federal census counted 1,827 Black residents of Middlesex County. Of those, 1,564 were enslaved — more than five in six. Being Black and being free were not the same thing in this county, and the law New Jersey passed four years later did not make them so. The 1804 Gradual Abolition Act freed nobody then living; it provided only that children born to enslaved mothers afterwards would go free at 21 if they were women and 25 if they were men. In 1846 the state passed a second act said to abolish slavery, which renamed those still held as "apprentices" bound to their present owners. Eighteen people were still held in New Jersey in 1860.
Middlesex County recorded 1,827 Black residents in the 1800 census, of whom 1,564 — more than five in six — were enslaved. Freedom and Blackness were not the same thing in this county, and the 1804 act did not make them so.
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 Edison, or for Middlesex 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 Edison Township. If you know of one, tell us and we will verify and add it.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Edison Township.
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Edison is in Legislative District 18. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Edison Township is in District 18. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this municipality in Trenton.
Senate · District 18 · Democrat
Assembly · District 18 · Democrat
Assembly · District 18 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Edison Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Edison 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.
Edison is in Legislative District 18, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
The immediate and total end of abortion, criminalised as homicide, with no exceptions, from the moment of fertilisation.
New Jersey does not report it. It is one of four jurisdictions that declines to report abortion data to the CDC. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 in 2025.
