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Six additional states, including the Dakotas, Michigan, and Oklahoma, have either feticide or wrongful death laws broad enough to potentially apply to embryos.
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Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
What is some of the general history behind some of these feticide laws and laws prohibiting abortions?
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
Alabama didn’t have a feticide law, nothing on the books about feticide as a crime.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
Dargan, 30, has been charged with murder, feticide and the possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.
—Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 8 Oct. 2021
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Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
What is some of the general history behind some of these feticide laws and laws prohibiting abortions?
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
Alabama didn’t have a feticide law, nothing on the books about feticide as a crime.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
Dargan, 30, has been charged with murder, feticide and the possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.
—Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 8 Oct. 2021
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“Feticide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feticide. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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feticide
noun
fe·ti·cide
variants
or chiefly British foeticide
: the action or process of causing the death of a fetus
Legal Definition
feticide
noun
fe·ti·cide
ˈfē-tə-ˌsīd 
: the act of causing the death of a fetus
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