Bergen County · ~36,489 residents
36,489
Residents
38
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Fair Lawn is a borough of about 36,000 in Bergen County, on the Passaic River.
Bergen held more enslaved people than any other county in New Jersey. The 1800 federal census counted 2,825 enslaved residents here — 18.6% of everyone living in the county, nearly one person in five. This was not a southern institution observed from a distance; it was the ordinary arrangement of the Dutch farm households that settled this county. Hudson County was carved out of Bergen in 1840 and Passaic in 1837, both taking that history with them.
Bergen held more enslaved people than any other county in the state. In the 1800 census, 2,825 of its residents were enslaved — 18.6% of everyone living here. Slavery in Bergen was not a southern institution observed from a distance; it was the ordinary arrangement of Dutch farm households across the county.
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 Fair Lawn, or for Bergen 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 Fair Lawn. The nearest are in Paterson and Hackensack.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Fair Lawn Borough.
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Fair Lawn is in Legislative District 38. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Fair Lawn Borough is in District 38. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this municipality in Trenton.
Senate · District 38 · Democrat
Assembly · District 38 · Democrat
Assembly · District 38 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Fair Lawn Borough that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Fair Lawn Borough. 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.
Fair Lawn is in Legislative District 38, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
More than anywhere else in New Jersey. The 1800 census counted 2,825 enslaved people in Bergen County, 18.6% of its population.
No. Neither a bill of abolition nor an equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
