What the data says about abortion in the U.S.
Six-in-ten US adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Here’s a look at data on abortion rates, providers, demographics and more.
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Jeff Diamant
Senior Writer/Editor
Jeff Diamant is a senior writer and editor at Pew Research Center. Most of his work involves drafting and editing reports on religion in the U.S. and around the world. He contributed to the Center’s latest Religious Landscape Study and separate studies on the faith of Catholics, Jewish Americans, Black Americans, Black Catholics, Muslim Americans and Europeans.
He also worked on a report looking at the reasons some Americans leave their childhood religion and on our Faith on the Hill report on the religious makeup of Congress. He also writes shorter-form posts on topics such as abortion and why the U.S. census doesn’t ask about religion.
Jeff has a Ph.D. in history from the CUNY Graduate Center and was a fellow in the Scholars-in-Residence program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He has a bachelor’s degree from Yale in political science and international studies. Before joining the Center, he was a newspaper reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger, Charlotte Observer and Palm Beach Post, and he wrote a true-crime book about a $17 million heist he covered in Charlotte.
