Definition of "feticide" [fe•ti•cide]

• Intentional destruction of a human fetus. (noun)

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• "Abortion is practiced occasionally as well as feticide, which is usually brought about by blows, compression, and external violence."
• "If you want to criminalize "feticide" and force unwilling mothers to carry their fetus to term, then the instant that child is delivered in the hospital room, does the new mother have the legal right to say, "Well, it's all yours now, I'm outta here, good luck.""
• "If female infanticide is genocide, and female "feticide," as it's called in the original article, is also genocide, then your pro-choice reasonings are going to collapse alarmingly quickly."