Gloucester County · ~24,322 residents
24,322
Residents
3
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Glassboro is a borough of about 24,000 in Gloucester County, home to Rowan University, and the only municipality in New Jersey with a church listed as abolitionist. Abolitionists Rising names one congregation in this state on its New Jersey page, and it is here. That is not a compliment to Glassboro so much as a comment on the other 563 municipalities.
Gloucester County dates to 1686 and once stretched across the south of the state; Atlantic was cut from it in 1837 and Camden in 1844. This is South Jersey Quaker country, where the argument that no Christian could hold a human being as property was pressed generations before New Jersey acted on it. When the state finally moved, it moved by halves: the 1804 act freed no living person, the 1846 act renamed the remaining enslaved as "apprentices" bound to their owners, eighteen people were still held in 1860, and the Legislature voted the Thirteenth Amendment down in March 1865.
Gloucester County dates to 1686 and once stretched across the south of the state; Atlantic was cut from it in 1837 and Camden in 1844. This is the country of the South Jersey Quakers, whose argument that no Christian could hold a human being as property was made here generations before the state acted on it — and of the free Black settlements that sheltered people escaping slavery.
Source: New Jersey State Archives, county formation table; Salem County Cultural & Heritage Commission
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 Glassboro, or for Gloucester 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 Glassboro.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Glassboro Borough.
Every abortion facility in New Jersey →
Glassboro is in Legislative District 3, in the south-west of the state. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Glassboro Borough is in District 3. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this municipality 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 3 · Democrat
Assembly · District 3 · Democrat
Assembly · District 3 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Glassboro Borough that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
Missio Dei Church
Non-Denominational
111 East High St
Elder: Jesse Gruber (signs the church's We Believe page). Justin Gruber is credited on the church podcast.
Church website →Listed as an abolitionist church by Abolitionists Rising. We have not been able to confirm that position from the church's own published words, so we pass on the listing and its source rather than vouching for it ourselves.
Yes — one, and it is the only church listed as abolitionist anywhere in New Jersey. Abolitionists Rising, the movement's own national organisation, names it on its New Jersey page. It appears further down this page. We are careful about how we put it: we could not confirm that position from the church's own published words, so we pass on the listing and its source rather than vouching for it ourselves.
Glassboro is in Legislative District 3, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
New Jersey publishes no count at any geography and does not report to the CDC. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians in the state in 2025.
