Union County · ~56,507 residents
56,507
Residents
22
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Plainfield is a city of about 57,000 in the west of Union County, on the Somerset border.
Union County is one of New Jersey's youngest, set off from Essex on 19 March 1857 — four years before the Civil War, and while people in this state were still held as "apprentices for life" under the 1846 act. Essex had counted 1,521 enslaved residents in 1800 out of 1,719 Black residents. Plainfield was inside that county for the whole of the slaveholding era, and inside a state that would vote against the Thirteenth Amendment in March 1865 before ratifying it the following January, after it was already law.
Union County is one of New Jersey's youngest, created out of Essex County on 19 March 1857 — four years before the Civil War, and while people were still held as apprentices for life under the 1846 act. Essex had counted 1,521 enslaved residents in 1800. Elizabeth, Union Township and Plainfield were part of that county for the whole of the slaveholding era.
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 Plainfield, or for Union 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 Plainfield.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Plainfield.
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Plainfield is in Legislative District 22. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Plainfield is in District 22. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this city in Trenton.
Senate · District 22 · Democrat
Assembly · District 22 · Democrat
Assembly · District 22 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Plainfield that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Plainfield. 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.
Plainfield is in Legislative District 22, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
New Jersey does not report the figure and publishes no count at any geography. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 in 2025.
The immediate and total end of abortion, criminalised as homicide, with no exceptions, from fertilisation.
