with the fact that there is a substantial body of medical opinion that a human embryo is a separate “human organism”…the right of the mother to privacy versus the right of the “human organism” to life itself takes on a new perspective.
“Right of the Unborn Child to Life” 1970
Texas argued that a woman’s right to privacy is not as important as the unborn child’s right to life.
National Archives, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States