Hudson County · ~302,824 residents
302,824
Residents
31, 32
Legislative districts
6
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Jersey City is the second largest city in New Jersey and, with Newark, one of only two municipalities big enough to be split across more than one legislative district. It sits in Hudson County, across the water from Manhattan, and has spent its whole history as a place people arrive in.
The state those arrivals joined was the last in the North to free its slaves. New Jersey chose gradual abolition in 1804 — freeing no one then living, and binding children born afterward until 21 or 25. In 1846 it passed a second act said to end slavery, which renamed the remaining enslaved as "apprentices" bound to their owners. Eighteen people were still held here in 1860, and the legislature voted the Thirteenth Amendment down in March 1865. Every step was defended as the achievable one. That is the argument this organisation exists to refuse when it is made again.
Hudson County did not exist until 22 February 1840. Everything in it — Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken, Union City, North Bergen, West New York — was part of Bergen County before that, and Bergen held more enslaved people than any other county in the state: 2,825 of them in the 1800 census, 18.6% of everyone living there. The county line moved. The history did not.
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 Jersey City, or for Hudson 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 is recorded inside Jersey City limits in our directory. That is a statement about our list, not a claim that none exists — if you know of one operating here, tell us and we will verify and add it. The nearest recorded facilities are in Newark and East Orange:
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Jersey City.
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Jersey City is split between Legislative Districts 31 and 32, so six people represent it in Trenton. Their recorded votes on the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act are shown below.
Jersey City is in Districts 31 and 32. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 6 people represent this city 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 31 · Democrat
Assembly · District 31 · Democrat
Assembly · District 31 · Democrat
Senate · District 32 · Democrat
Assembly · District 32 · Democrat
Assembly · District 32 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Jersey City that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Jersey City. 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.
Jersey City is split between Legislative Districts 31 and 32. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members per district, so six people represent the city in total. All are listed on this page.
None in this city. There is one in the whole state, in Glassboro, listed by Abolitionists Rising. We read all 106 New Jersey congregations in the directory we work from and found no others. If your church has taken a public position, tell us and we will verify it and list it.
New Jersey does not report the figure. It is one of four jurisdictions that declines to report abortion data to the CDC, and its Department of Health publishes no count at any geography. The Guttmacher Institute estimates about 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians in New Jersey in 2025.
Abolition means the immediate and total end of abortion, criminalised as homicide, with no exceptions, from the moment of fertilisation — as distinct from reducing abortion by degrees while accepting exceptions.
