Somerset County · ~45,421 residents
45,421
Residents
16
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Hillsborough is a township of about 45,000 in the south of Somerset County, the fiftieth largest municipality in New Jersey and one of the faster-growing.
Somerset was second only to Bergen among New Jersey counties by enslaved population: 1,863 people held in the 1800 census, 14.5% of everyone living here. From 1737 until 1800 the densest slaveholding in the state was consistently in Bergen, Monmouth and Somerset. What followed was not emancipation but a schedule — the 1804 act freeing nobody then living, the 1846 act renaming the remaining enslaved as "apprentices" bound to their owners, eighteen people still held in 1860, and a legislature that rejected the Thirteenth Amendment before accepting it.
Somerset County held 1,863 enslaved people in 1800 — 14.5% of its population, the second-highest concentration in New Jersey. From 1737 until 1800 the densest slaveholding in the state was consistently in Bergen, Monmouth and Somerset.
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 Hillsborough, or for Somerset 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 Hillsborough Township. The nearest is the Planned Parenthood Franklin Township Center, addressed to Somerset.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Hillsborough Township.
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Hillsborough is in Legislative District 16, which it shares with South Brunswick. Its three legislators are below.
Hillsborough Township is in District 16. 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 16 · Democrat
Assembly · District 16 · Democrat
Assembly · District 16 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Hillsborough Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Hillsborough 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.
Hillsborough is in Legislative District 16, which it shares with South Brunswick. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
The Planned Parenthood Franklin Township Center, in the north of this county, addressed to Somerset.
No. Neither a bill of abolition nor an equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
