Burlington County · ~47,211 residents
47,211
Residents
7
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Mount Laurel is a township of about 47,000 in Burlington County, and among the faster-growing of New Jersey's fifty largest — up nearly 6% between 2020 and 2024.
Burlington County is where the Quaker John Woolman spent his life arguing that no Christian could hold a human being as property, and where Timbuctoo was founded in 1826 by four Black men believed to have escaped slavery in Maryland. That settlement grew past 125 residents, built a school and a church, and became an established stop on the Underground Railroad. The state around it was in no hurry: New Jersey freed nobody living in 1804, renamed the enslaved "apprentices" in 1846, still held eighteen people in 1860, and voted the Thirteenth Amendment down in March 1865.
In 1826 four Black men — believed to have escaped slavery in Maryland — bought land from a Quaker businessman in what is now Westampton Township. The settlement they founded took the name Timbuctoo, grew past 125 residents, and built a school, a church and a cemetery. Sitting on the Rancocas Creek within reach of the Delaware, it became an established stop on the Underground Railroad. Burlington County is also where the Quaker John Woolman spent his life arguing that no Christian could hold a human being as property.
Source: New Jersey State Library, Timbuctoo fact sheet; Westampton Township
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 Mount Laurel, or for Burlington 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 Mount Laurel Township. The nearest recorded ones are in Delran and Cherry Hill.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Mount Laurel Township.
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Mount Laurel is in Legislative District 7. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Mount Laurel Township is in District 7. 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 7 · Democrat
Assembly · District 7 · Democrat
Assembly · District 7 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Mount Laurel Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Mount Laurel 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.
Mount Laurel is in Legislative District 7, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
A Quaker of Mount Holly, in this county, who spent his life arguing that no Christian could hold a human being as property — decades before New Jersey passed its first abolition act, and more than a century before the state stopped holding people.
No. No bill of abolition and no equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
