Sussex County · ~22,879 residents
22,879
Residents
24
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Vernon is a large township in the north-east corner of Sussex County, on the New York border, with about 23,000 residents.
The chain of Quaker Underground Railroad stations that began at Quakertown in Hunterdon ran north to the Drowned Lands of Sussex County — about as far from the Delaware crossings as a person could travel and still be in New Jersey. Sussex was formed out of Morris in 1753 and gave up its western half to create Warren County in 1824. All of it lay inside a state that would not finish abolishing slavery until 1865, and whose Legislature voted against the Thirteenth Amendment before accepting it.
The chain of Quaker Underground Railroad stations that began at Quakertown in Hunterdon ran north to the Drowned Lands of Sussex County — about as far from the Delaware crossings as a person could get and still be in New Jersey. Sussex was formed out of Morris County in 1753 and gave up its western half to create Warren County in 1824. All of it was inside a state that would not finish abolishing slavery until 1865, and whose legislature voted against the Thirteenth Amendment before accepting it.
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 Vernon, or for Sussex 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 Vernon Township. The nearest recorded one is the Planned Parenthood centre in Newton, the Sussex County seat.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Vernon Township.
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Vernon is in Legislative District 24, which it shares with Mount Olive in Morris County. Its three legislators are below.
Vernon Township is in District 24. 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 24 · Republican
Assembly · District 24 · Republican
Assembly · District 24 · Republican
Congregations we know of in Vernon Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Vernon 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.
Vernon is in Legislative District 24, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
The Planned Parenthood centre in Newton, the Sussex County seat. It is mapped on our abortion facilities page.
No. Neither a bill of abolition nor an equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
