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Foeticide (British English), or feticide (North American English), is the act of killing a fetus, or causing a miscarriage.^[1] Definitions differ between legal and medical applications, whereas in law, feticide frequently refers to a criminal offense,^[2] in medicine the term generally refers to a part of an abortion procedure in which a provider intentionally induces fetal demise to avoid the chance of an unintended live birth, or as a standalone procedure in the case of selective reduction.^[3]

^ Definitions of feticide from dictionary.com.
^ Hardy, Benjamin (1999). "Crimes Against The Unborn Child". Connecticut General Assembly Office of Legal Research.
^ Guilbaud, L.; Maurice, P.; Dhombres, F.; Maisonneuve, É.; Rigouzzo, A.; Darras, A. -M.; Jouannic, J. -M. (2020-09-01). "Geste d'arrêtde vie fœtale : techniques pour les interruptions médicales de grossesse des deuxième et troisième trimestres". Gynécologie Obstétrique Fertilité & Sénologie (in French). 48 (9): 687–692. doi:10.1016/j.gofs.2020.02.009. ISSN 2468-7189. PMID 32092488. S2CID 213657224.