"<...Both Belgium and the Netherlands have legalized euthanasia."

To be accurate and honest, it's physician assisted suicide, not euthanasia. That is not a detail, it's not trivial. To call it euthanasia is a typical cheap trick of the right, deliberately misleading, a propaganda effort, and doesn't deal with the issue. That's not an tactic which becomes you.

"Clean needles are available to drug addicts in France."

And why not? Do you think that any self-respecting drug addict is sitting around thinking that if only they had a clean needle they'd shoot up? And won't until then?

I was interviewed some years ago about that issue. My reply was that free glasses would not have encouraged me to drink more. And, at that time, every case of HIV was costing the government $250,000. I'm aware the punitive aspects of a conservative political view wants to screw 'em, but it's expensive for everyone. Very expensive. If $5,000 of free needles prevented one case of HIV, that's a pretty good deal.

"Condoms are distributed freely to prostitutes."

See above on "free needles".

"Homeless people are given shelter."

Ain't that a bitch!

Arf