$268,000,000 for NJ Abortions
The Center for Garden State Families, from our inception nine years ago, has been and will always be Pro-Life from conception to natural death.
The following article was written by our good friend, Marie Tasy, Executive Director of New Jersey Right to Life, and was republished by National Right to Life and Life News.
In his last Budget Address, New Jersey Governor Murphy Vows to Make “Largest Investment” with Taxpayer Money to Expand Abortion
Feb 26, 2025
Pledges to Recruit and Incentivize Abortionists to Move to New Jersey
By Marie Tasy, Executive Director, New Jersey Right to Life
On Tuesday afternoon, pro-abortion Governor Phil Murphy delivered his final Budget Address. Along with his reliably predictable platitudes and self-aggrandizing boasts claiming to feel the pain of “our state’s working- and middle-class families,” he pledged to include tens of millions of dollars to incentivize and recruit OB-GYNs from other states to move to NJ to perform abortions.
“And as we all know well, right now, the single biggest challenge facing the people of New Jersey is that the cost of living is way too high,” he told the audience as he unveiled his $58.1 billion bloated budget proposal stuffed with rewards for his favorite political supporters.
Not surprisingly, Murphy’s Fiscal Year 2026 proposed budget also includes $52 million in taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood’s family planning/abortion business. By the time he leaves office, the total amount of New Jersey taxpayer funds Governor Murphy has awarded the abortion giant will total more than $268 million, an amount he proudly admits to having “quadrupled” since his first budget.
On January 14, 2025, during his State of the State Address, the abortion-obsessed Governor promised to stockpile abortion pills. The stockpiling of abortion pills is a priority of the Reproductive Freedom Alliance formed by 23 Pro-Abortion Governors to strengthen and expand “access to abortion.” The Alliance admittedly works hand in hand with abortion groups to promote a radical pro-abortion agenda. Not surprisingly, Gov. Murphy is a proud member of this Alliance.
During his State of the State address, Murphy also called on the Legislature to pass legislation to remove out-of-pocket costs for abortion care. He said these measures were necessary steps to protecting and expanding “reproductive freedom.”
Murphy has already worked overtime to expand “reproductive freedom.”
Abortions in New Jersey increased by 22.3% from 2020 to 2023. According to the most recent estimated monthly statistics from the Guttmacher Institute, approximately 59,700 abortions were performed in the state in 2023, the year after Gov. Murphy signed the radical Reproductive Freedom Act.
Gov. Murphy’s insatiable desire to increase the already staggering number of babies killed by abortion in our state remains unabated.
The lives of 59,700 future New Jersey citizens extinguished in just one year weighs heavy on our hearts, as does every single abortion. If we acknowledge that every abortion is a tragedy, what can we say about 59,700 in one year? We will never know what these precious lives might have contributed to our state, our society, and our communities, but what we do know is that abortion does not equal progress for women.
The reality is that New Jersey’s extreme abortion laws exploit and victimize women and young girls by granting immunity to sex traffickers, pedophiles, medical professionals, and other bad actors who prey on vulnerable women. 59,700 abortions show that our government is tragically failing women by actively promoting more abortions.
We are counting the days until Gov. Murphy leaves office so we can chart a bright new course, one that encourages parenting and adoption and celebrates women’s life-giving capacity.
The Link Between Abortion and Human Trafficking
Since Phil Murphy has been governor, New Jersey is now supplementing the profits of human sex traffickers. In years past, human sex trafficking was a cash business, and the people who operated it would have to pay out of their pockets to take their slaves who would become pregnant doing the work for which they are used. NOW, the human trafficker will take the pregnant slave to an abortion clinic and will never be asked how this woman, being a minor or an adult, became pregnant. The people of the state of New Jersey will pay for their abortions with their tax dollars. YES, you are paying for the abortions of human trafficking victims and putting that money back into the pockets of their traffickers. Many of the abortions performed in New Jersey may be from out-of-state.
The Center for Garden Families has been and will continue to work tirelessly to stop this atrocity on human beings. Gov. Murphy's policies on abortion continue to exploit and victimize the victims of human trafficking.