It might be wise to indulge in some of life’s little luxuries before it’s too late – like having sex and eating caviar. Both were almost outlawed in Australia, after a slip of the pen by legislators drafting a version of the country’s new bill governing embryo research.
The draft specified illegal behaviours including “heterosexual sex if the intention was not pregnancy; creating embryos with two parents; giving birth following pregnancy; and eating caviar or any other fertilised egg�, The Australian reported last week.
Alan Pettigrew, chief executive officer of the National Health and Medical Research Council, whose policy makers wrote the draft, reassured New Å®ÉúСÊÓÆµ that the errors were caught way before the bill made it to Parliament, where it will be debated over the next few weeks.
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