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neonaticide

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neonaticide [ˌniːəʊˈneɪtɪˌsaɪd]
n
(Law) the act of killing a baby in the first 24 hours of its life


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But in the culture of life, decent goals like preventing neonaticide are put into the subtle service of the movement's larger cause: protecting the unborn by every means possible.
take on a horrific subject with objectivity and sensitivity, placing neonaticide in its proper place separate from infanticide and filicide.
Somander and Rammer (1991) investigated those cases of child deaths resulting specifically from abuse; that is, from the use of physical force to eliminate a child's disturbing behaviour, as opposed to situations such as neonaticide, post-natal depression or homicide-suicide.
 
 
 
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