Feticide
![Fetal homicide laws in the United States Homicide or murder.
Other crime against fetus.
Depends on age of fetus.
Assaulting woman.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Map_of_US,_feticide_laws.svg5458.png")
Feticide (or foeticide) is an act that causes the death of a fetus.
The suffix -icide is added in place of fetus' last syllable. It derives back to occido, a Latin term meaning "to fell or to kill." Other examples include homicide, genocide, infanticide, matricide, and regicide.