I’ll bet most people didn’t know that pole dancing was considered a sport and artform…
If there were any doubt about the strenuous art of pole dancing, the World Pole Dancing Championships that were held this past weekend in Zurich, Switzerland would’ve been a good place to find pole athletes.
Competitors participate at the World Pole Dancing Championship 2012 held at the Volkshaus on November 10, 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland. The public’s perception of pole dancing has recently changed to become a popular sport combining physical strength, technique and choreography. Photo: Harold Cunningham, Getty Images / 2012 Getty Images
Dancers from 26 countries did what they could do to raise the bar for the sport, which has become as popular in gyms as it has in exotic night clubs.
Competitors participate at the World Pole Dancing Championship 2012 held at the Volkshaus on November 10, 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland. The public’s perception of pole dancing has recently changed to become a popular sport combining physical strength, technique and choreography. Photo: Harold Cunningham, Getty Images / 2012 Getty Images
The World Pole DancingChampionships began in 2008 in the city of Manila, of the Philippines. And every year since, it has grown in numbers and participation.
A competitor participates at the World Pole Dancing Championship 2012 held at the Volkshaus on November 10, 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland. The public’s perception of pole dancing has recently changed to become a popular sport combining physical strength, technique and choreography. Photo: Harold Cunningham, Getty Images / 2012 Getty Images
A competitor participate at the World Pole Dancing Championship 2012 held at the Volkshaus on November 10, 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland. Photo: Harold Cunningham, Getty Images / 2012 Getty Images
Next year, the competition will allow men to compete in the championships.
I will say, the ladies that performed were very lovely…
And the acts were organized very well…
But I have my own suggestion for next year’s competition…
And I want to say ahead of time that I do respect a pro-lifer’s opinion…
But for the life of me (please excuse the pun), I can’t wrap my mind around someone thinking it’s okay to sacrifice one life for another…
As I type this, I’m thinking, ‘I might get in trouble for this story here’…
There is an outrage brewing in Dublin, Ireland, after a beautiful, young, Indian dentist died after she was denied a life-saving procedure that would have spared her life. She was reportedly denied a potentially lifesaving abortion even while she was having a miscarriage. This incident has now has revived debate over Ireland’s almost total ban on abortions.
Savita Halappanavar
The woman, Savita Halappanavar, 31, a dentist who lived near Galway, was 17 weeks pregnant when she sought treatment at University Hospital Galway on Oct. 21, complaining of severe back pain.
Halappanavar was informed by senior hospital physicians that she was having a miscarriage and that her fetus had no chance of survival. However, despite repeated pleas for an abortion, she was told that it would be illegal while the fetus’ heart was still beating, her husband, Praveen Halappanavar, said.
It was not until Oct. 24 that the heartbeat ceased and the remains of the fetus were surgically removed. But Savita Halappanavar contracted a bacterial blood disease, septicemia. She was admitted to intensive care but never recovered, dying on Oct. 28.
Praveen Halappanavar, in an interview with The Irish Times from his home in India, said his wife was told after one request, “This is a Catholic country.”
Two investigations into the case have been announced, and politicians have been quick to express their condolences and to call for legal clarity. Kathleen Lynch, a junior health minister, said medical professionals needed guidelines to deal with such circumstances.
In a statement, the hospital said it would cooperate fully with any inquest but that it had not started its own review because it wanted to consult the woman’s family first.
Praveen Halappanavar told the newspaper that he still could not believe his wife was dead.
“I was with her those four days in intensive care,” he said. “They kept telling me: ‘She’s young. She’ll get over it.’ But things never changed; they only got worse. She was so full of life. She loved kids.
“It was all in their hands, and they just let her go. How can you let a young woman go to save a baby who will die anyway?”
But Halappanavar said he saw no use in being angry. “I’ve lost her,” he said. “I am talking about this because it shouldn’t happen to anyone else.”
On Wednesday, November 13, about 2000 demonstrators gathered outside the Irish parliament In Ireland to protest the antiquated, and some say draconian, laws that lead to the needless death of Savita Halappanavar.
In my own opinion, I have this to say…
Again I respect a pro-lifer’s opinion. But until there are gangs riding around giving drive-by abortions, I can’t side with you…
Everyone in the world are who they are because of free will…
Imposing a belief on a nation is slavery…
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t support abortion as a form of birth control but I do support a woman’s right to have one if she choose to…
There are sooo many homeless children, children in foster care, neglected children, abused children, and forgotten children in the world, why add to the fold?
Statistically, most inmates in the jail system were in foster care and neglected.
This is the United States statistical chart:
California Inmate Foster Care Statistics
Not to say that this is the blueprint of a foster child, (because I’m the product of the foster system…and I came out kinda cool…) but it is a reality…
And then you have the cases where the mother’s life is sacrificed for the child…
Who makes that decision?
Wow…
I digress…
Click here to read more about Savita Halappanavar…