Newborn found outside a New Orleans church

Wow, people still actually do this?

A newborn baby was found alive this morning at a church in downtown New Orleans. Police say a nun at Saint Joseph's Church found the infant -- a black boy -- in one of the front-door alcoves.

I mean I know, unfortunately, children are often abandoned, but it just sounds like something out of a book: leaving a baby on the church steps.

Actually I'm somewhat surprised that it's legal to do so at "hospitals, police stations or fire stations". And in one of our (albeit rare) shows of compassion, we at GodBlogging.com are concerned for the mother. Since the umbilical cord was pinched off with a paper clip we think we're safe in assuming she was alone. And the after effects of birth can kill you if you don't know what to do (i.e. was the placenta expelled, etc.)