In one of those rare instances of The New York Times waking up and smelling the coffee, the paper reports that “safe haven laws” in New York and 46 other states – which allow mothers to legally and anonymously abandon their newborns at specific locations – have failed to reduce the number of mothers who kill their unwanted children. The Times quotes a forensic psychiatrist and assistant professor at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia explaining that mothers who kill their newborns “see it as a foreign object; they want it out and done with and gone.” The Stiletto does not...