"The encyclical accurately, systematically lays down a very relevant principle: life is not a value to be chosen or protected, but an absolute asset, that is, unrelated to any personal selective criteria. Life is an asset, the original element of which is nature". These are the words of Paola Ricci Sindoni, lecturer of moral philosophy at the University of Messina, on the 40th anniversary of the publication of Paul VI’s encyclical "Humanae Vitae" (25 July 1968). "While nowadays we are used to regarding so many aspects of live, just think of the big issues of bioethics, as uprooted from the context of nature and subjected to the dynamics of culture and therefore to technical-scientific means goes on the lecturer , the Humanae Vitae helps us bring life back to its natural essence, which is composed of this natural absolute asset. That’s why the encyclical is still relevant as a model that must be exported, proposed today". According to Ricci Sindoni, it is wrong to want to impose at all costs to the developing countries "lifestyles that are somehow solely subdued to the technical-scientific means that provide for birth control through contraception. This is a way to bend nature to culture". (continued) ” “
