feticide
IPA: fˈɛtʌsaɪd
noun
- (dysphemistic) The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.
- One who kills a fetus.
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Examples of "feticide" in Sentences
- Take it to the feticide article, please.
- However, I wouldn't object to a merger with feticide.
- Not redirecting abortion to feticide shows another bias.
- Feticide may be performed prior to the surgical procedure.
- Clearly, at pubmed, feticide is the more common term by far.
- I'd be more comfortable with the term Feticide in the See Also.
- Feticide or foeticide is an act that causes the death of a fetus.
- Various states have passed legislation on the subject of feticide.
- The organisation seems to oppose female feticide and exploitation of destitutes.
- Abortion is practiced occasionally as well as feticide, which is usually brought about by blows, compression, and external violence.
- 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.
- "But there is at least one area in which the movement for fetal rights has been particularly successful: fetal homicide, or" feticide, "laws, which generally criminalize acts that terminate a pregnancy outside of abortion.
- 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."
- In a similar sentiment, the spate of bills and laws popping up around the country from Utah's bill proposed and pushed by right-wing, conservatives that seeks to criminalize women who have miscarriages to "feticide" laws stemming from our Unborn Victims of Violence Act that have been used around the country to punish women who may dare to wittingly or not place their fetus in danger, we codify the Christian right's patriarchal, anger towards women.
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