"It seems not only the current culture has turned its back on the concept that had inspired the Humanae Vitae", but "also science and biotechnology have set up research for a new building of sexuality, of procreation and the family". The alert was relayed yesterday in Bucharest by mgr. Elio Sgreccia, president of the Papal Pro-Life Academy as he spoke at the meeting promoted from 27 to 28 May in the Romanian capital by the Roman Catholic Theological Institute "Santa Teresa" about: "Humanae vitae between modernity and challenge. A modern response to a centuries-old problem". "Over the last ten years – said mgr. Sgreccia –, the intercepting techniques (such as the RU486) have associated abortion with the image of contraception. Everything now looks like a huge technological, financial and political effort to separate the uniting dimension of the conjugal act with its procreative dimension: ‘yes to sexual intercourse, no to a child’". This is the current situation, which has been brought about by a long historical process, with a first stage (in the ’60s-’80s) in which contraception and abortion "aimed at liberating sex, separating it from procreation". (continued)