I’m not religious. I don’t go to church, I don’t put my last five dollars in the collection plate on Sundays, nor do I have a Bible sitting on my nightstand. I do, however, hold a strong stance against abortion.

Since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case in 1973, abortion has been legal in all 50 states.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), abortion is defined as “an intervention performed by a licensed clinician (e.g., a physician, nurse-midwife, nurse practitioner, or physician’s assistant) that is intended to terminate an ongoing pregnancy.”

In my eyes, however, I see abortion as a lazy way out and a sugar coated way to define murder.

As many of us have seen on the news or on social media sites, people go to prison for murder. Abortion is the same exact thing, yet the “murderer” is free to live her life and pay no legal repercussions for it.

According to the CDC, an estimated 1.3 million abortions are performed every year.

If 1.3 million women each year want to terminate their pregnancy, it seems to me as if contraceptives such as birth control and condoms are nearly non-existent.

Among the thousands of women who get abortions every year, 52 percent are young and gullible women under the age of 25, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an international institute concerning the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights.

If a female feels she is old enough to have sexual intercourse without protection, she is capable of carrying the child a full nine months. Abortion is purely the lazy way out.

Not only does abortion terminate a child, it also is very expensive.

In the United States alone, an abortion can run a woman anywhere from $250 to $700, whereas a sexually active person can pick up a condom at their local health department for free.

Women who get abortions are basically paying to murder their child, when the victim didn’t even ask to be here in the first place.

As reported by the Guttmacher Institute, one percent of all abortions are due to rape or incest and six percent are due to potential health problems. In the same study, a whopping 93 percent of all abortions happen due to social reasons, such as interference with school or not wanting to be a single parent.

When a female is pregnant, she has three options: abortion, adoption, or raising the child. Likewise, if a woman is unable to or does not want to take on the responsibility of a child, adoption is always a second option.

With all of the so called “truths” pro-choice advocates show, many people like myself are horrified that a person would think terminating a child is morally acceptable.

As a female, I know the different types of struggles the female population faces on a day to day basis; however, that does not assuage my feelings toward ending a life.