Middlesex County · ~57,487 residents
57,487
Residents
17
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
New Brunswick sits on the Raritan in Middlesex County, a city of about 57,000 and the county seat.
Middlesex was among the heaviest slaveholding counties in New Jersey. The 1800 census counted 1,827 Black residents here and 1,564 of them enslaved — more than five in six. Four years later the state passed the act that was supposed to end it and freed nobody: the 1804 law reached only children born after that July, and only after they had served twenty-one or twenty-five years. In 1846 the remaining enslaved were renamed "apprentices" bound to their present owners. Eighteen people were still held in New Jersey in 1860.
Middlesex County recorded 1,827 Black residents in the 1800 census, of whom 1,564 — more than five in six — were enslaved. Freedom and Blackness were not the same thing in this county, and the 1804 act did not make them so.
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 New Brunswick, or for Middlesex 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 New Brunswick. The nearest is the Planned Parenthood Franklin Township Center, across the river in Somerset County.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside New Brunswick.
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New Brunswick is in Legislative District 17 with Piscataway and Franklin Township. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
New Brunswick is in District 17. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 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 17 · Democrat
Assembly · District 17 · Democrat
Assembly · District 17 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in New Brunswick that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in New Brunswick. 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.
New Brunswick is in Legislative District 17, which it shares with Piscataway and Franklin Township. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
The Planned Parenthood Franklin Township Center, addressed to Somerset, across the Raritan in Somerset County.
No. No bill of abolition and no equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
