I’ll start at the top:
There’s shells within which we live:
World, World Authority, State, State Authority.
Age of Majority is when you are A PERSON. All the rights of a human being belong to you. Most States it’s 18, some it’s 20, some younger.
18+ = MAJOR
But what are you when you are under 18? You are a MINOR.
MINOR rights are different than MAJOR rights.
The UN did the Declaration of the Rights of a Child, although that’s optional and carries no real weight, so the rights of minors differ depending what State (country/nation but I’m calling them all State) you’re in.
Legally a minor is INFANT. We’re nice and grant extra rights here and there up to the age of MAJORITY, but ultimately, INFANT.
INFANTICIDE is illegal in almost every State in the world, although some are lax about it but generally illegal and various forms of murder punishment often come in.
So now we’re at BIRTH.
It is only AFTER Birth that we have an INFANT, which is a Minor to the age of Majority.
So what is it BEFORE birth?
It’s not an Infant. It’s not a “Baby”. So what is it?
Maybe we can start making up terms that sound good. Embryo, Fetus, human life, clump of cells, womb resident, burden, precious – whatever we WANT to call it.
It has no international legal status and there’s a HUGE variety of ideas what to call it and how to treat it.
So if the law isn’t doing in in a consistent way, we have, what? Morality? Religious and spiritual and ethical and philosophy and ‘court of public opinion’ and all kinds of unregulated chaos of possible ideas.
So you want to use the phrase “human life”. But is it?
It’s not an individual. It can’t be INDIVIDUATED without birth. “A life” is “an individual human or animal”.
So under that definition of “a life”, no, it is not yet a human being until it is born.
But there is another definition of life that I think you want to use instead.