Why is This More Shocking?

This article is a good overview of a current story making the rounds.  An 18-year-old woman goes to get an abortion, but has the 23-week-old baby before the abortionist can start the procedure.  The non-medical owner of the clinic cuts the umbilical cord and throws the baby, placenta, etc. into a biohazard bag and throws the living baby away.  The doctor who was supposed to show up and do the abortion has now apparently lost his license.

I told my wife and a friend of ours, separately, about the story.  Both of them pro-life, both of them nurses, they both expressed sadness, but then said something to the effect of, "So what's the difference?"  Point being, the doctor wouldn't have lost his license if he himself had killed the baby in the womb.  There would have been no news story, no horror, shock, or media attention at all.  But because the baby died a few minutes later (though no less horrifically than many abortions), the consequences are vastly different.  Why should this baby's death be treated as any more of a tragedy than the other 3,000+ babies that America kills, on average, every day?