Mini Review Volume 4 Issue 5 - July 2017 DOI:10.19080/PBSIJ.2017.04.555647 Psychol Behav Sci Int J Copyright © All rights are reserved by Andrzej Brodziak The Metaphysical Essence of the Controversy between Proponents of Pro-choice and Pro-life Attitudes Intensified in Eastern European countries Andrzej Brodziak 1 *, Alicja Różyk Myrta 2 and Jana Kutnohorska 3 1Institute of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, Sosnowiec, Europe 2Institute of Nursing, University of Applied Sciences, Europe 3Department of Health Care Studies, Tomas Bata University, Europe Submission: July 12, 2017; Published: July 24, 2017 *Corresponding author: Andrzej Brodziak, Institute of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, Koscielna St. 13, 41 – 200 Sosnowiec, Poland, Europe, Tel: ; Fax: , Email: Psychology and Behavioral Science International Journal ISSN 2474-7688 Psychol Behav Sci Int J 4(5): PBSIJ.MS.ID.555647 (2017) 001 Introduction Today in various countries around the world there is a dispute on the acceptability and legality of abortion. In Poland in October 2016, the contestation between the proponents of so- called pro-choice and pro-life attitudes took the form of mass street protests. Understanding the causes of a violent reaction of women facilitates comprehension of the essence of the dispute. Data on these social changes can be helpful in analyzing and subduing similar controversies in other countries. In our opinion, understanding the causes of the ongoing culture war would requires a review of the historical development of views on the acceptability of abortion and a review of the current legislation and social circumstances in different countries of the world. Then it would be easier to characterize the reasoning of the proponents of pro-life and pro-choice attitudes. The review of historical development and of current legislations were presented recently by some authors [1-9]. However, the most important element of the problem which is the essence of ideological controversy is not fully realized. For this reason, we focus in this commentary to attempt to capture the difference in reasoning of supporters of pro-choice and pro- life attitudes. In our view, it is needed to distinguish between the average, popular, circulating ideas assumed by the broad general parties and the differences in philosophical arguments to which some participants of the dispute refer. This will allow presenting the trial of explanation of recent exacerbation of the contestation. An Attempt to Characterize the Reasoning of Proponents of the Pro-Life Attitude In the course of typically emotional conversations with people who are supporters of pro-life attitudes, the following arguments and inference reasoning are formulated: Biological life, human life exists from the moment of fertilization, it means from the moment of the appearance of a single cell-the zygote. Human life is sacred, blessed («holy») and therefore should be subjected to legal and practical protection from that moment. The proponents of a pro-life attitude identify the zygote, the early stages of development of the embryo and fetus with the “human person». The supporters of the pro-life attitude are convinced that 1. Their opinions result from religious doctrine, and that 2. It is the only proper attitude in the light of current morality. Their knowledge and convictions are based on the recent declarations of the hierarchs of the Church, and as the basis for moral evaluation they apply the current guidelines of the Catholic Church. The proponents of pro-life attitudes do not generally know the history of the development of the position of Christian churches for the admissibility of abortion, and their moral judgment is not subject for analysis from the point of view of different ethical schools. In talks with supporters of pro-life attitudes, it is difficult to discuss the essence of the phenomenon of life and details of current knowledge related to this phenomenon (DNA, genome, cellular cytoplasm) as well as knowledge about the natural processes of the loss of the early form of embryos by failure of implantation and early miscarriage. It seems that mainly on a subconscious level they place an extremely high value on the existential events involving the occurrence of the sexual intercourse, regardless of the circumstances and the intentions of the couple who conceived the zygote, embryo, man. Even if the intention was not noble (casual intercourse without the intention of procreation, or even with conscious exclusion of the intention to conceive offspring,