Ethicist Joseph Fletcher believes a person is not human when there is absence of cerebral function. A human being ought to have more brains than a puppy dog. B. Human Value is Inherent. 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.