Union County · ~32,050 residents
32,050
Residents
21
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Westfield is a town of about 32,000 in Union County, west of Elizabeth.
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 the 1800 census out of 1,719 Black residents, nearly nine in ten. Westfield 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 Westfield, 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 Westfield. The nearest are in Union Township and Elizabeth.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Westfield.
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Westfield is in Legislative District 21. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Westfield is in District 21. 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 21 · Republican
Assembly · District 21 · Democrat
Assembly · District 21 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Westfield that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Westfield. 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.
Westfield is in Legislative District 21, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
The nearest in our directory are in Union Township and Elizabeth, both a few miles east.
The immediate and total end of abortion, criminalised as homicide, with no exceptions, from fertilisation.
