Gloucester County · ~49,756 residents
49,756
Residents
4
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Washington Township is in Gloucester County, in the south of the state. If you searched for the abortion facility in "Washington, NJ", it is not here — that one is in Washington Borough, Warren County, sixty miles north and in a different legislative district. New Jersey has several Washington Townships. This is the Gloucester County one, with about 50,000 residents.
Gloucester County dates to 1686 and once stretched across the south of New Jersey; Atlantic was cut from it in 1837 and Camden in 1844. This is South Jersey Quaker country, where the argument that no Christian could hold a human being as property was made generations before the state acted on it — and where free and self-freed Black families built settlements at Springtown, Marshalltown, Snow Hill and Timbuctoo, sheltering people escaping a state that had not yet finished abolishing slavery itself.
Gloucester County dates to 1686 and once stretched across the south of the state; Atlantic was cut from it in 1837 and Camden in 1844. This is the country of the South Jersey Quakers, whose argument that no Christian could hold a human being as property was made here generations before the state acted on it — and of the free Black settlements that sheltered people escaping slavery.
Source: New Jersey State Archives, county formation table; Salem County Cultural & Heritage Commission
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 Washington, or for Gloucester 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 Washington Township, Gloucester County. The nearest are in Camden and Cherry Hill.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Washington Township.
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Washington Township is in Legislative District 4, which it shares with Gloucester Township. Its three legislators are below.
Washington Township is in District 4. 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 4 · Democrat
Assembly · District 4 · Democrat
Assembly · District 4 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Washington Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Washington 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. That facility is in Washington Borough, Warren County, in Legislative District 23 — about sixty miles north of here. Washington Township in Gloucester County is a different municipality entirely.
Washington Township, Gloucester County is in Legislative District 4, which it shares with Gloucester Township. 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 in 2025.
