Middlesex County · ~62,733 residents
62,733
Residents
17
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Piscataway is a township of about 63,000 in Middlesex County, on the Raritan across from New Brunswick.
The 1800 census counted 1,827 Black residents of Middlesex County. Of them, 1,564 were enslaved — more than five in six. The Gradual Abolition Act of 1804 freed none of them; it reached only children born afterwards, and only after twenty-one or twenty-five years of unpaid service. The 1846 act that was supposed to finish the work renamed those still held as "apprentices" bound to their present owners. This is what it looks like when a legislature writes a law to be passed rather than to work.
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 Piscataway, 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 Piscataway Township. The nearest is in Franklin Township, across the river.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Piscataway Township.
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Piscataway is in Legislative District 17, which it shares with New Brunswick and Franklin Township. Its three legislators are below.
Piscataway Township is in District 17. 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 17 · Democrat
Assembly · District 17 · Democrat
Assembly · District 17 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Piscataway Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Piscataway 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.
Piscataway is in Legislative District 17, which it shares with New Brunswick and Franklin Township. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
The nearest in our directory is the Planned Parenthood Franklin Township Center, addressed to Somerset, across the Raritan in Somerset County.
The immediate and total end of abortion, criminalised as homicide, with no exceptions, from fertilisation.
