Foeticide

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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]