Hunterdon County · ~25,288 residents
25,288
Residents
16
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Raritan Township is the largest municipality in Hunterdon County, wrapped around the borough of Flemington in the centre of the county. Note the name: this is not Raritan Borough, which is in Somerset County, nor Raritan Bay.
Quaker settlements in this county formed one end of a chain of Underground Railroad stations running from Quakertown, here in Hunterdon, north to the Drowned Lands of Sussex. New Jersey's geography made it matter — it lay between Philadelphia and New York, the two busiest centres of the railroad, and directly across the water from Delaware and Maryland. Hunterdon is one of the older counties, dating to 1714, and it held Trenton until Mercer was created out of it in 1838.
Quaker settlements formed a chain of Underground Railroad stations running from Quakertown in this county north to the Drowned Lands of Sussex. New Jersey's position mattered: it lay between Philadelphia and New York, the two most active centres of the railroad, and directly across the water from the slave states of Delaware and Maryland. Hunterdon is also one of the state's older counties, dating to 1714, and it held Trenton until Mercer County was created out of it in 1838.
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 Raritan, or for Hunterdon 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 sits inside Raritan Township itself, but one operates in Flemington, the borough it surrounds:
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Raritan Township.
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Raritan Township is in Legislative District 16, which it shares with Hillsborough and South Brunswick. Its three legislators are below.
Raritan Township is in District 16. 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 16 · Democrat
Assembly · District 16 · Democrat
Assembly · District 16 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Raritan Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Raritan 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.
Raritan Township in Hunterdon County, which surrounds Flemington. It is not Raritan Borough, a separate municipality in Somerset County, and not Raritan Bay.
Raritan Township, Hunterdon County is in Legislative District 16, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
The Planned Parenthood centre in Flemington, the borough this township surrounds.
