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infantacide 

she agreed to do infantacide?
infantacide by 96133 December 8, 2023

male infanticide 

To kill an infant or baby because they are male.
Male infanticide is virtually zero in comparison to female infanticide.

In past centuries male infanticide has been used as a war tactic in controlling nations by limiting the numbers of men that can fight in wars.
male infanticide by The Moody Poet February 3, 2007

infanticide 

The killing of an infant under the age of one year.

Some people argue that abortion is also infanticide. In some cases abortion is needed to save the pregnant mother because of severe medical problems that would result in the death of the pregnant mother, but in other cases abortion has been used as an elective surgery to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.

There are different forms of abortions from Medical Abortion, Therapeutic Abortion, Spontaneous Abortion, Induced Abortion, Surgical Abortion, Sex-Selective Abortion, Backyard Abortion and Elective Abortion.

In some countries infanticide has been argued that if a child is born with a congenital disorder or significant morbidity i.e. very retarded or fucked up, that infanticide should be allowed. This is in my opinion could also be called Infant Euthanasia or murder.
Infanticide has been found to exist in over populated countries where poverty is massive i.e. China and India.

Child sacrifice is another form of infanticide.

To leave your baby in the middle of nowhere to the elements of nature is infanticide.

To abandon your baby to die because the baby is female and you have to pay a dowry is female infanticide.
infanticide by The Moody Poet February 3, 2007

female infanticide

To kill an infant because they are female.
In some cultures males are more highly regarded and valued than females, which can cause female infanticide i.e. China 2007 maintains a rule, the One Child Policy, that you can only have one child, or be severely penalized for having more than one child.

Hindu's and Muslim's have a long tradition of females having to be married with a dowry, which can lead to poorer families committing female infanticide.

Sex selective infanticide 

To kill an infant or baby based on an undesired or unwanted gender.
They wanted a male to live on their family name so they committed sex selective infanticide until that male was born.

It is estimated that places in Asia because of Sex selective infanticide will have too many males and not enough females in the future.

infanticide 

The fate of many female newborns in China.

In the Us, one of the two forms of murder legal in the US, considering that a baby born prematurely would be fully protected by the law, while inside the womb it could be aborted.
You aren't a life unless I say you are! Infanticide? Nonsense, you can't murder a piece of tissue.
infanticide by Killing Kittens October 9, 2004
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