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Feticide

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Feticide (or foeticide) is an act that causes the death of a fetus. [1]

43 relations: Abortion, Abortion debate, Abortion in the United Kingdom, Alice Garg, Bachi Karkaria, Beginning of human personhood, Bei Bei Shuai, Born alive rule, Child destruction, Female foeticide in India, Femicide, Filicide, Forced abortion, Infanticide in primates, Intact dilation and extraction, Justifiable homicide, Kermit Gosnell, List of types of killing, Lucie Adelsberger, Male privilege, Mehar Baba Charitable Trust, Mukkulathor, Nonkilling, Pardada Pardadi Educational Society, Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Plains zebra, Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, Priyanka Chopra, Prolicide, Purvi Patel, Quickening, Ram Singh Kuka, Rita Banerji, Rodent, Sex-selective abortion, Shivana Jorawar, Sikh feminism, Srilamanthula Chandramohan, Terry Nichols, Third-degree murder, Unborn Victims of Violence Act, Vaginal anomalies, 22 Weeks.

Abortion

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.

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Abortion debate

The abortion debate is the ongoing controversy surrounding the moral, legal, and religious status of induced abortion.

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Abortion in the United Kingdom

Abortion has been legal on a wide number of grounds in England and Wales and Scotland since the Abortion Act 1967, then one of the most liberal abortion laws in Europe.

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Alice Garg

Alice Garg (born 1942) is an educator and activist.

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Bachi Karkaria

Bachi Karkaria is an Indian-Parsi journalist and columnist.

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Beginning of human personhood

The beginning of human personhood is the moment when a human is first recognized as a person.

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Bei Bei Shuai

Bei Bei Shuai is a Chinese immigrant to the United States who became the subject of international public attention from 2011 to 2013 when the authorities of the state of Indiana charged her with murder and attempted feticide after her failed suicide attempt allegedly resulted in the death of the child she was pregnant with.

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Born alive rule

The "born alive" rule is a common law legal principle that holds that various criminal laws, such as homicide and assault, apply only to a child that is "born alive".

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Child destruction

Child destruction is the name of a statutory offence in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Hong Kong.

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Female foeticide in India

Female foeticide in India (translation) is the abortion of a female foetus outside of legal methods.

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Femicide

Femicide or feminicide is a sex-based hate crime term, broadly defined as "the intentional killing of females (women or girls) because they are females", though definitions vary depending on the cultural context.

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Filicide

Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child.

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Forced abortion

A forced abortion may occur when the perpetrator causes abortion by force, threat or coercion, or by taking advantage of woman's incapability to give her consent, or where she gives her consent under duress.

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Infanticide in primates

Infanticide in non-human primates occurs when an individual kills its own or another individual's dependent young.

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Intact dilation and extraction

Intact dilation and extraction (Intact D&E) is a surgical procedure that removes an intact fetus from the uterus.

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Justifiable homicide

The concept of justifiable homicide in criminal law (e.g. as opposed to culpable homicide) stands on the dividing line between an excuse, a justification, and an exculpation.

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Kermit Gosnell

Kermit Barron Gosnell (born February 9, 1941) is an American former abortion-provider who was convicted of murdering three infants who were born alive during attempted abortion procedures.

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List of types of killing

In the English language, terms for types of killing often end in the suffix -cide.

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Lucie Adelsberger

Lucie Adelsberger (12 April 1895 – 2 November 1971) was a German Jewish physician who was imprisoned during the Second World War at Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps, where she provided medical care to other prisoners.

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Male privilege

Male privilege is a concept within sociology for examining social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are available to men solely on the basis of their sex.

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Mehar Baba Charitable Trust

Mehar Baba Charitable Trust is an NGO based in Bassi Pathana, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India, working towards empowerment for women, improved medical care and social services since 2005.

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Mukkulathor

The Mukkulathor people, who are also collectively known as Thevar, are native to the central and southern districts of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Nonkilling

Nonkilling refers to the absence of killing, threats to kill, and conditions conducive to killing in human society.

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Pardada Pardadi Educational Society

Pardada Pardadi Educational Society is a non-profit organization based in Anoopshahr, Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, India, dedicated to the academic, economic and in this poor area of the country.

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Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 ((HTML); *, from the U.S. Government Printing Office (PDF) PBA Ban) is a United States law prohibiting a form of late termination of pregnancy called "partial-birth abortion," referred to in medical literature by as intact dilation and extraction.

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Plains zebra

The plains zebra (Equus quagga, formerly Equus burchellii), also known as the common zebra or Burchell's zebra, or locally as the "quagga" (not to be confused with the extinct subspecies), is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra.

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Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994

Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to stop female feticides and arrest the declining sex ratio in India.

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Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra (born 18 July 1982) is a global actress, singer, film producer, philanthropist, author and the winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant.

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Prolicide

Prolicide is the act of killing one's own offspring.

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Purvi Patel

Purvi Patel (born c. 1982) is an Indian American whose conviction and sentence to 20 years in prison in Indiana for feticide and child neglect was overturned by the Indiana Court of Appeals.

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Quickening

In pregnancy terms, quickening is the moment in pregnancy when the pregnant woman starts to feel or perceive fetal movements in the uterus.

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Ram Singh Kuka

Sri Satguru Ram Singh Kuka also known as Satguru Ram Singh (3 February 1816 – ?), is credited as being the first Indian to use non-cooperation and boycott of British merchandise and services as a political weapon.

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Rita Banerji

Rita Banerji is an author, photographer and gender activist from India.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Sex-selective abortion

Sex-selective abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the infant.

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Shivana Jorawar

Shivana Jorawar (ca. 1984) is a lawyer, reproductive justice advocate, and community organizer.

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Sikh feminism

Sikhism was founded in Punjab in 1469 by Guru Nanak on the foundations that everyone is equal, regardless of caste, age, or gender.

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Srilamanthula Chandramohan

Srilamanthula Chandramohan (born 1981) is an artist who was born in Madanapally, a village in Andhra Pradesh in southern India.

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Terry Nichols

Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted of being an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing.

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Third-degree murder

Third-degree murder is a name for a category of murder defined in the laws of three states in the United States, specifically Florida, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.

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Unborn Victims of Violence Act

The Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-212) is a United States law which recognizes an embryo or fetus in utero as a legal victim, if they are injured or killed during the commission of any of over 60 listed federal crimes of violence.

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Vaginal anomalies

Vaginal anomalies are abnormal structures that are formed (or not formed) during the prenatal development of the female reproductive system and are rare congenital defects that result in an abnormal or absent vagina.

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22 Weeks

22 Weeks is a 2009 anti-abortion short film directed by Angel Manuel Soto, based on a 9-1-1 recording of a reported event, and on a 2005 WorldNetDaily article by Ron Strom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feticide

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