Feticide

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion. countable, uncountable

    "Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh."

  2. 2
    the act of destroying a fetus wordnet
  3. 3
    One who kills a fetus. countable, uncountable

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abortionaborticideaborticide

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"Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh."

Etymology

From fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”) and its derivation -cīdium (“killing”), from -cīd (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”, forming agent nouns).

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