The level of scientific development of modern society has generated the need to identify and study a separate category of human rights - somatic rights. At the moment, there is no unified approach to the nature of somatic rights, which makes it impossible to fully integrate them into the human rights system. The article analyzes the causes and features of somatic rights in their relationship with the human rights system. The study of somatic rights from the perspective of the discursive theory of Robert Alexi is proposed.