Union County · ~63,171 residents
63,171
Residents
20
Legislative district
3
Legislators
1
Abortion facility
Union Township is in Union County — and is not Union City, which is in Hudson County twelve miles north. It has about 63,000 residents and grew nearly 6% between 2020 and 2024, among the fastest of New Jersey's fifty largest municipalities.
Union County is one of the state's youngest, set off from Essex County on 19 March 1857 — four years before the Civil War, and while people in New Jersey were still held as "apprentices for life" under the 1846 act. Essex had counted 1,521 enslaved residents in the 1800 census out of 1,719 Black residents. This township was inside that county for the whole of the slaveholding era.
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 Union, 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
One abortion facility operates in Union Township, an independent clinic on Stuyvesant Avenue:
Jersey GYN — Union
1323 Stuyvesant Ave, Ste 1, Union, NJ 07083
(908) 686-2563
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Union Township is in Legislative District 20, the same district as Elizabeth. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Union Township is in District 20. 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 20 · Democrat
Assembly · District 20 · Democrat
Assembly · District 20 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Union Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Union 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.
No. Union Township is in Union County, in Legislative District 20. Union City is a separate municipality in Hudson County, in District 33, about twelve miles north.
Union Township is in Legislative District 20, which it shares with Elizabeth. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
New Jersey publishes no count and does not report to the CDC. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians in the state in 2025.
