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Etymology
From fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from French -cide, from Latin -cida (“cutter, killer”), from -cid (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”) (used for form agent nouns).
Noun
feticide (countable and uncountable, plural feticides)
- (dysphemistic) The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.
2002, Daniel Schiff, Abortion in Judaism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68: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.
- 1878, H. Gibbons, "On Feticide" in Transactions of the Session of the Medical Society of the State of California vol. 8; J. Anthony & Co., Printers; page 209:
- Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase.
- One who kills a fetus.
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