{"id":167865,"date":"2023-07-19T22:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T03:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-brain-implant-changed-her-life-then-it-was-removed-against-her-will"},"modified":"2023-07-19T22:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T03:24:23","slug":"a-brain-implant-changed-her-life-then-it-was-removed-against-her-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-brain-implant-changed-her-life-then-it-was-removed-against-her-will","title":{"rendered":"A brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-brain-implant-changed-her-life-then-it-was-removed-against-her-will.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the right to freedom of thought enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is similarly open to interpretation. It was historically put in place to protect freedoms surrounding beliefs, religion, and speech. But that could change, says Ienca. \u201cRights are not static entities,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He is among the ethicists and legal scholars investigating the importance of \u201cneuro rights\u201d\u2014the subset of human rights concerned with the protection of the human brain and mind. Some are currently exploring whether neuro rights could be recognized within established human rights, or whether we need new laws.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Her case highlights why we need to enshrine neuro rights in law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the right to freedom of thought enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is similarly open to interpretation. It was historically put in place to protect freedoms surrounding beliefs, religion, and speech. But that could change, says Ienca. \u201cRights are not static entities,\u201d he says. He is among the ethicists and legal scholars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}