I have gotten into many discussions about abortion and when a baby's life begins and what a woman has the right to do with her body. For me it does not have anything to do with what we think that our rights are but what God thinks. First of all my body is not mine as the word of God states:

1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

Romans 12:1
1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Now I do not suppose that those verses above are enough to convince some people. Next I would like to look at what life is and what God has to do with it in order to look more closely at where life really begins and who our life belongs to.

Here would be one of the best verses on how God has made us and how He plays a vital part of our being:

Psalm 139:13-16
13 For you formed my inward parts; you wove me in my mother's womb. 14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; 16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.

Therefore, the Bible says that God has all of our days ordained for us even before we were born. So can we say that we aren't someone just because we were not born yet? God thinks we are someone because He already has a life for us.

God says that before Jeremiah was born that He knew him and had already appointed him as a prophet:

Jeremiah 1:4-5
4 Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, 5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."

John the baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb:

Luke 1:15
15 "For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb.

Paul, the man who wrote more books of the New Testament than anyone else was called and set apart for the works of God while still in his mother's womb:

Galatians 1:15-16
15 But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased 16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

So I think that it is plain to see that we are God's property not our own and God has plans ordained for us long before we come into this world. The question is, "Will we let it happen?"

Here is one other verse to look at:

Psalm 71:6
6 By you I have been sustained from my birth; you are He who took me from my mother's womb; My praise is continually of you.