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Prolicide vs Neonaticide - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between prolicide and neonaticide

is that prolicide is the crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth while neonaticide is the murder of a newborn.

prolicide

English

Noun

(-)
  • The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
    • (Bouvier)

    See also

    * filicide, infanticide, neonaticide; abortion

    References

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    neonaticide

    English

    Noun

  • The murder of a newborn.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 4, author=Cara Buckley, title=Brooklyn Girl Threw Away Her Newborn Son, Police Say, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But critics of the law said mothers who immediately kill their babies after giving birth, a practice known as neonaticide , are usually in deep denial about their pregnancies. }}

    See also

    * filicide, infanticide, prolicide; abortion