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Answer for the clue "The act of destroying a fetus ", 8 letters:
feticide

Word definitions for feticide in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also foeticide , 1842; see fetus + -cide . Related: Feticidal .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feticide \Fe"ti*cide\ (? or ?), n. [Written also f[oe]ticide .] [Fetus + L. caedere to kill.] (Med. & Law) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Feticide (or foeticide ) is an act that causes the death of a fetus .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of destroying a fetus [syn: aborticide ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An abortion, specifically, the killing of a fetus.

Usage examples of feticide.

Russia and China had racism, oppression, state-mandated feticide, imperialism, gulags, religious intolerance, expanding nuclear stockpiles and enough murdered dissidents and purged peasants to make the Altamont Rock Festival look like a half-filled phone booth.