"Each of these approaches to bodily integrity, in other words, highlights an aspect of physical, political, or psychological wholeness as well as an aspect of physical, political, or biological space. In Cardozo and Cohen, the issue at stake is defining spheres (the public as well as the private) and the civic or political relationships that are mediated in these spheres. In Taub and Cornell, the issue at stake is physical and psychological personhood, how each relates to political identity, and how attacks on each need to be prevented using a rhetoric of rights and duties. All four thus in a basic way see bodily integrity as central to defining the self, to defining “reality,” and to defining political space. As I will suggest over the following pages, it is this understanding of the right to bodily integrity precisely and in particular that reinforces- in a far more relentless and effective way than even the right to consent did in the early twentieth century-the articulation of women's wombs as biopolitical space. Bodily integrity-physical, psychological, and political-has been constructed for distinctly political reasons, having to do with distinctly political notions of reality, identity, and personhood."