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Definition of Feticide

Feticide
Feticide Fe"ti*cide (? or ?), n. [Written also f[oe]ticide.] [Fetus + L. caedere to kill.] (Med. & Law) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

Meaning of Feticide from wikipedia

- Foeticide (British English), or feticide (North American English), is the act of killing a fetus, or causing a miscarriage. Definitions differ between...
- American whose conviction and sentence to 20 years in prison in Indiana for feticide and child neglect was overturned by the Indiana Court of Appeals. The court...
- continually importing them and there is no end to the cycle of female feticide if these acts can continue and importation is an option. The imported brides...
- Attack type Familicide, m**** murder, uxoricide, filicide, child murder, feticide Victims 4 (including an unborn child) Perpetrator Christopher Lee Watts...
- pregnancy. When used to perform an abortion, an intact D&E can occur after feticide or on a live fetus. In the United States, where federal law describes an...
- trauma or stress to cause miscarriage is considered induced abortion or feticide.     Practice of Induced Abortion Methods MVA D&E EVA Hyst. D&C Intact...
- perpetrators, multiple mating, territoriality or early termination of pregnancy. Feticide can also occur among rodents; in Alpine marmots, dominant females tend...
- citing recent advances in science and medicine, and in several states feticide statutes have been explicitly framed or amended to include fetuses in utero...
- born alive laws, in the United States   Homicide or murder   Other crime against fetus   Depends on age of fetus   ****aulting mother   No law on feticide...
- "unborn child" as a crime victim, at least for purposes of homicide or feticide. The legislation was both hailed and vilified by various legal observers...