Reporting Child Abuse and Abortion

All states mandate physicians to report suspected child abuse and neglect. Abortion is a form of child abuse leading to death, when successful. Why should we be content with a double standard, being required to report suspected child abuse to the state for those out of the womb and turn a blind eye to those in the womb? Why is it that the State would make one legal and the other illegal?

The nature of the being in question is not different; only the location is different, i.e., in or out of the womb. Physicians are required to violate the parental privacy in cases of suspected child abuse out of the womb, but expected to participate in, encourage or otherwise turn a blind eye to child abuse in the womb. But why should they?

Moreover, some physicians are protected--actually able to do the abusing themselves, apparently, if the mother asks the physician to do so and the individual is in the womb. Those who are against child abuse should be against it whether the individual being abused is in or out of the womb. Child abuse does not become less concerning because of a change in location.

Key questions:

(1) If the state requires physician action against child abuse how does it make sense that the State would also protect physicians in the act of child abuse when the point of the abuse is to cause death?

(2) How does location make a difference when it comes to child abuse?

(3) How does privacy make a difference when it comes to those in the womb, but not those out of the womb? People talk about privacy in order to justify homicide in the womb, but it is obvious that privacy makes little difference out of the womb.

(4) If parents are not allowed to abuse their children out of the womb, would they be allowed to do so in the womb?

(5) If the state protects individuals out of the womb, why should the state not protect individuals in the womb?

(6) If the state is pushed aside because of the privacy of the physician-patient relationship when it comes to abuse of those in the womb, why should it not be pushed aside in the case of those out of the womb?

(7) If physicians are required to report suspected cases, why are they not required to report actual cases and why would the state be so concerned about individuals in the one instance and so little concerned about individuals in the other instance?

Physicians who are against child abuse out of the womb should also consider child abuse in the womb.