Man has value because he is created in God's Image. This is known through Scripture. Man is a spiritual being. God breathed into his nostrils and he became a living soul. The Bible views the fetus as a human entity.
Life is seen as a continuum of conception to death.
The historical position of the church has always been that Christ was divine from conception. The fetus is human with potential. It refers to willful. Abortion and infanticide were common practice among the nations surrounding Israel. A. Biologists in the past have always concluded that it began at conception.