Maybe the mother did not know that, or thought it would be embarrassing. In some places in Europe churches had containers where a baby could be left while no one else was around. A baby drop box.
The father of modern collectivism and many of the ills which beset us, Jean Jacques Rousseau, used that service for all of his children. Their mother was his maid. This despite the fact Rousseau wrote a major work on the proper way to raise children.
And don't get me started on Marx. Since its birth Leftism has been replete with hypocrisy and mental illness.
Don’t fire stations also have those?. Or just in some states. Would be a great thing for communities to invest in. A safe place, no questions asked.