prolicide
nounEtymology From Latin prōlēs (“offspring”) + -cide.
1
The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
- PROLICIDE […] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.1827, Robley Dunglison, Syllabus of the Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, page 93:
2
One who commits prolicide.
- Perhaps they had accommodated the foregoing statement to the casuistical axiom, non homo est, qui non futurus est, which is a very agreeable one to prolicides.1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and State Medicine, page 283:
- Related terms
- filicide, infanticide, neonaticide, abortion