Feticide vs Infanticide - What's the difference?
feticide | infanticide |
An abortion, specifically, the killing of a fetus.
* {{quote-book, title=Abortion in Judaism
, author=Daniel Schiff
, publisher=Cambridge University Press
, year=2002
, isbn=0521521661, page=68
, passage=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:
One who kills a fetus.
The murder of an infant.
The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
(zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.
As nouns the difference between feticide and infanticide
is that feticide is an abortion, specifically, the killing of a fetus while infanticide is the murder of an infant.feticide
English
Noun
(en noun)- Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase.