Salem County · ~12,855 residents
12,855
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Abortion facilities
Pennsville is the largest municipality in Salem County, on the Delaware in the far south-west of the state.
Salem is where Abigail Goodwin lived. A birthright Quaker whose father and uncle freed the people they held during the Revolution, she made the house she shared with her sister at 47 Market Street an Underground Railroad station by 1838, and counted William Still and Harriet Tubman among her friends. She was also put out of the Orthodox Quaker Meeting in Salem — for joining the radical Friends who demanded the total abolition of slavery rather than its gradual reduction. She was expelled from her own church for refusing to be an incrementalist. In 2008 the Goodwin Sisters House became the first site in New Jersey accepted into the National Park Service's Network to Freedom.
Abigail Goodwin (1793–1867) was a birthright Quaker of Salem whose father and uncle freed the people they held during the Revolution. By 1838 the house she shared with her sister at 47 Market Street was an Underground Railroad station, and she counted William Still and Harriet Tubman among her friends. She was also ejected from the Orthodox Quaker Meeting in Salem — for joining the radical Friends who insisted on the total abolition of slavery rather than its gradual reduction. That is the same argument this organisation makes, and she was thrown out of her church for making it. The Goodwin Sisters House became, in 2008, the first site in New Jersey accepted into the National Park Service's Network to Freedom.
Source: Salem County Cultural & Heritage Commission, Abigail Goodwin, Quaker Abolitionist
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 Pennsville, or for Salem 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 Pennsville Township, or anywhere in Salem County.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Pennsville Township.
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Pennsville is in Legislative District 3, which it shares with Glassboro. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Pennsville Township is in District 3. 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 3 · Democrat
Assembly · District 3 · Democrat
Assembly · District 3 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Pennsville Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Pennsville 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.
A Quaker abolitionist of Salem (1793–1867) whose home at 47 Market Street was an Underground Railroad station from 1838, and who was ejected from her Orthodox Quaker Meeting for joining the radical Friends demanding the total abolition of slavery rather than its gradual reduction. The Goodwin Sisters House was the first New Jersey site accepted into the National Park Service Network to Freedom, in 2008.
Pennsville is in Legislative District 3, which it shares with Glassboro. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
No. Neither a bill of abolition nor an equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
