Rubens Turci

A Body Within a Body — Pregnancy, Personhood, and Inner Jurisdiction

This essay examines pregnancy as an embodied relation between unequal scales of life and asks how moral responsibility can recognize developing life without transferring jurisdiction over the pregnant body to another person or the state. It proposes inner jurisdiction—not as abso...

A Body Within a Body — Pregnancy, Personhood, and Inner Jurisdiction

This essay examines pregnancy as an embodied relation between unequal scales of life and asks how moral responsibility can recognize developing life without transferring jurisdiction over the pregnant body to another person or the state. It proposes inner jurisdiction—not as abso...