Clueless Bill

Bill O'Reilly compares giving contraception to women is equivalent to giving heroin to addicts in Denmark.  Leaving aside the obvious logical fallacies of that statement, there is actually a bigger issue.

It's not Denmark, it's the Netherlands, and it's not heroin it's Methadone!

Other than that he got it bob on!

I lived in Amsterdam for 22 years, the methadone bus used to park just round the corner from my apartment on Tuesday mornings. The idea is that once you are a state registered heroin addict, you can be supplied with clean methadone, clean needles, clean syringes, and you don;t have to associate with gangsters to buy your stuff. It's also free, so you don't need to commit crime, or sell your body, to raise the money to buy more. (Research in Amsterdam shows that on average an untreated heroin addict commits 26 criminal acts per day!). Those on the register are then gently encouraged to enter into long-term treatment programs. I should also point out that Amsterdam only has an average of 2,500 heroin addicts at any one time, a far lower number (pro-rata) than almost any other major city in the western world, so this system does not encourage drug use.

So it's cheap, it's effective, it prevents the spread of HIV and reduces crime and prostitution.

Yep, I can see why Billo would hate it.