Free Republic

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...