Abortion and reproductive rights are one of the many areas where the Judeo-Christian religious traditions got it right, both scientifically and morally.
Abortion rights are sanctioned in the bible and other religious texts, and for very good reasons. Childbirth is incredibly dangerous, time-consuming, and resource intensive. No pre-industrial society can survive without careful consideration and balancing of the rights of mothers, existing children and potential children. A pregnancy at the wrong time can be a death sentence for the entire family.
Unsurprisingly, successful early cultures came up with practical solutions for these tough problems, allowing abortion when necessary, while acknowledging the difficult moral choices involved in ending a potential human life.
They set the dividing line between potential human life and fully human life at "quickening" where a fetus could survive to breath on its own - roughly the 3rd trimester. This is a good choice, given the technology available at the time. Abortion before this point is allowed, after is murder.
Why the Catholic Church extended this dividing line to conception is probably a good discussion for religious scholars, but has little bearing on today's society. All the other mainstream Christian sects adhered to the original interpretation in practice, up until the 1970's when desegregation of public schools sparked a backlash against civil rights. Jerry Falwell and other Evangelical Christians developed a strategy to oppose Roe vs Wade as a way to install "conservative" politicians who would also, seemingly as a coincidence, oppose desegregation and civil rights for POC.
Falwell's church accepted abortion rights right up to the early 70's, before switching positions quietly. This fact has been written out their history and is never talked about.
Today's secular, scientifically advanced, technocratic society now has, of course, many more options than our Bronze-Age ancestors. We could make contraception freely available, and 100% reliable, while banning abortion after sometime in the 2nd trimester, except in cases of rape, incest, and medical danger to the mother. That would be close to my choice, but instead we will soon have the worst of all choices - a Supreme Court that effectively repeals Roe vs Wade, restricts contraceptive rights, and imposes a radical religious extremist position that came about originally to reverse Civil Rights and re-impose Jim Crow in the South.