Prolicide

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prolicide \Prol"i*cide\, n. [L. proles offspring + caedere to
     kill.]
     The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb
     or after birth. --Bouvier.
     [1913 Webster]



From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PROLICIDE, med. jurisp. Medical jurists have employed this word to designate 
  the destruction of the human divided the subject into foeticide, (q.v.) or 
  the destruction of the foetus in utero; and infanticide, (q.v.) or the 
  destruction of the new-born infant. Ryan, Med. Jur. 137.