Good question bb,
I have often wondered about this. If the foetus is not a life, why does it say somewhere in the OT that if two men are fighting and one knocks into a pregnant woman and causes her to lose her baby, that man must be put to death - a life for a life? Either the foetus is a life or it isn't. According to this passage, it is a life. Also, why would abortion be wrong if you were not actually taking a life.
A sister I knew had a stillbirth and the elders said she would not see him in the resurrection. I always thought that was a load of rubbish - how did they know this? There is nothing about that in the Bible. I think some elders just make things up as they go along.
xxR