Passaic County · ~70,722 residents
70,722
Residents
36
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Passaic is a dense, working city of about 71,000 on the river that gave it and its county their name.
Passaic County was created on 7 February 1837 from parts of Bergen and Essex — in 1800, the first and sixth counties in New Jersey by enslaved population. Bergen held 2,825 people, Essex 1,521. New Jersey was the last northern state to free its slaves and it chose to do so gradually: the 1804 act freed no one then living, binding children born afterwards until 21 or 25; the 1846 act renamed those still held as "apprentices" to their present owners; eighteen people were still held in 1860. Gradualism was not abolition arriving slowly. It was a law that named the people whose freedom could wait.
Passaic County was created on 7 February 1837 from parts of Bergen and Essex. Those were the first and sixth counties in New Jersey by enslaved population in 1800 — Bergen with 2,825 people held, Essex with 1,521. Paterson, Clifton, Passaic and Wayne were inside them.
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 Passaic, or for Passaic 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 Passaic city. The nearest is the Planned Parenthood centre in Paterson.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Passaic.
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Passaic is in Legislative District 36. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Passaic is in District 36. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this city in Trenton.
Senate · District 36 · Democrat
Assembly · District 36 · Democrat
Assembly · District 36 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Passaic that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Passaic. 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.
Passaic city is in Legislative District 36, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
No. Passaic is a city inside Passaic County, which also contains Paterson, Clifton and Wayne. The county was created in 1837 from parts of Bergen and Essex.
No. No bill of abolition and no equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
