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The extra steps of injecting a child with feticide to stop her heart or ripping her limbs off of her body are not needed to care for the mother.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Six additional states, including the Dakotas, Michigan, and Oklahoma, have either feticide or wrongful death laws broad enough to potentially apply to embryos.
—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
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First Known Use
1842, in the meaning defined above
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“Feticide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feticide. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
Medical Definition
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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