Warren County · ~15,393 residents
15,393
Residents
23
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Phillipsburg is a town of about 15,000 on the Delaware in Warren County, facing Easton, Pennsylvania across the river.
People escaping slavery usually entered New Jersey by crossing the Delaware at night in a small boat, guided by a signal of two lanterns — yellow above blue — answered from the shore when it was safe to land. This town sits on that crossing. The Springtown Inn, built around 1825 on the road running from Easton through Phillipsburg toward Somerville and Trenton, is held by strong local tradition to have served as a safe house; the constant traffic of an inn would have made good cover. That is tradition rather than documented record, and we offer it as such.
People escaping slavery usually entered New Jersey by crossing the Delaware at night in small boats, guided by a signal of two lanterns — yellow above blue — answered from the shore. Warren County sits on that river opposite Easton, and the Springtown Inn, built around 1825 on the road from Easton through Phillipsburg toward Somerville and Trenton, is held by strong local tradition to have been a safe house; the constant traffic of an inn would have made good cover. It is tradition rather than documented record, and is offered here as such. Warren County itself was cut from Sussex in 1824.
Source: New Jersey State Library, A Guide to the Underground Railroad in New Jersey
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 Phillipsburg, or for Warren 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 Phillipsburg. One does operate elsewhere in Warren County — the Planned Parenthood centre in Washington Borough, which is often mistaken for Washington Township in Gloucester County, sixty miles south.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Phillipsburg.
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Phillipsburg is in Legislative District 23, the same district as the Washington Borough facility. Its three legislators are below.
Phillipsburg is in District 23. 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 23 · Republican
Assembly · District 23 · Republican
Assembly · District 23 · Republican
Congregations we know of in Phillipsburg that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Phillipsburg. 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.
In Washington Borough, Warren County — this county, in Legislative District 23. It is frequently confused with Washington Township in Gloucester County, which is a different municipality about sixty miles to the south.
Phillipsburg is in Legislative District 23, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
It sits on a Delaware crossing that people escaping slavery used, and the nearby Springtown Inn is held by strong local tradition to have been a safe house. That tradition is not the same as documented record, and we do not present it as one.
