Camden County · ~66,896 residents
66,896
Residents
4
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Gloucester Township is in Camden County — not, despite the name, in Gloucester County. It is one of the larger municipalities in South Jersey, with about 67,000 residents.
Camden County holds Lawnside, the only African-American community ever incorporated as a municipality in New Jersey. It began as Snow Hill, a settlement of free and self-freed Black families, and was a station on the Underground Railroad; the Reverend Peter Mott built a house there in 1845 and used it to shelter people escaping slavery. It still stands. What those families were escaping, this state was still practising — New Jersey freed nobody living in 1804, renamed the remaining enslaved "apprentices" in 1846, and still held eighteen people in 1860.
Snow Hill, later Free Haven and now Lawnside, was a settlement of free and self-freed Black families and a station on the Underground Railroad. The Rev. Peter Mott built his house here in 1845 and used it to shelter people escaping slavery; it still stands as the oldest house in Lawnside and is now an Underground Railroad museum. Lawnside remains the only African-American community ever incorporated as a municipality in this state.
Source: Peter Mott House Underground Railroad Museum; Lawnside Historical Society
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 Gloucester, or for Camden 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 Gloucester Township. The nearest are in Cherry Hill and Camden.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Gloucester Township.
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Gloucester Township is in Legislative District 4, which it shares with Washington Township. Its three legislators are below.
Gloucester Township is in District 4. 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 4 · Democrat
Assembly · District 4 · Democrat
Assembly · District 4 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Gloucester Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Gloucester 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.
No. Gloucester Township is in Camden County, in Legislative District 4. Gloucester County is next door and contains a separate Washington Township, among others. New Jersey reuses place names heavily.
Gloucester Township is in Legislative District 4, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
No. Neither a bill of abolition nor an equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
