What's the difference between aborticide and feticide?
Aborticide
Definition:
(n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.
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Feticide
Definition:
(n.) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.
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(1) Other terms include "selective" birth, reduction, feticide, abortion, and multiple pregnancy reduction.
(2) Purvi Patel faces between six and 20 years in prison for feticide and up to 50 years imprisonment for neglect of a dependent when she goes to trial, currently scheduled for 29 September.
(3) In the first case, to ensure the development of the normal fetus, selective feticide of the affected fetus was undertaken by transabdominal intracardial injection of 20% NaCl solution.
(4) After a feticide law was passed in Texas in 2003 , for example, a local district attorney used the opportunity to send a letter to all doctors in her county that they were now legally required to report any pregnant women using drugs.
(5) She is the second woman in Indiana to be charged with feticide following the prolonged criminal prosecution of Bei Bei Shuai, who lost her baby when she tried to kill herself .
(6) To use feticide charges in this way is bad for public health.
(7) Child neglect would require the baby to have been alive and viable, while the feticide charge would require the fetus to have died in utero.
(8) If only 1 twin fetus is affected, it is generally necessary to also abort the unaffected twin or to wait until the second trimester and perform selective feticide through use of the air embolism technique.
(9) In 2011, also in Indiana, Bei Bei Shuai was prosecuted under the same feticide laws after a suicide attempt ended in the death of her unborn child.
(10) Shuai, a migrant to the US from China, spent more than a year in jail awaiting trial for murder and feticide following the death of her baby, Angel, who was born after Shuai took rat poison in a suicide attempt.
(11) The advantages of the procedure of selective feticide developed by the authors are also discussed.
(12) Purvi Patel, the 33-year-old woman charged with feticide and child neglect over the death of her unborn child, has been found guilty of all counts by a jury in Indiana.
(13) The two charges that Patel now faces – the initial count of neglect of a dependent, and the new charge of feticide – appear to be legally contradictory.
(14) Asked about this apparent contradiction, Patel’s lawyer, Jeffrey Sanford, said: “I don’t think the state can prove a live birth.” In a pre-trial court hearing on Tuesday, Sanford asked for a delay in the trial date to give his team more time to prepare a defence against the new feticide charge.
(15) A 33-year-old woman from Indiana, has been charged with the feticide and fetal murder of her unborn child after she endured a premature delivery and sought hospital treatment.
(16) Women’s rights advocates see the decision by prosecutors of St Joseph County, Indiana, to apply feticide laws against Patel as part of the creeping criminalization of pregnancy in America.
(17) Different methods of intervention have been described, including therapeutic amniocentesis, selective feticide, and placental vessel puncture.
(18) Neither charge carries mandatory prison time, but the maximum sentence for child neglect is 50 years – with an additional maximum of 20 years for feticide.
(19) At 25 weeks' gestation, severe hydramnios, premature labor, and growth retardation of the donor twin suggested that selective feticide be contemplated to allow continuation of the pregnancy for the remaining twin.
(20) We report successful selective feticide of an anomalous, comprising twin by using intracardiac potassium chloride injection at 26 weeks gestation.