The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

the act of destroying a fetus

Feticide or foeticide as a legal term refers to the deliberate or incidental killing of a fetus due to a human act, e.g. a punch or kick in the abdomen of a pregnant woman. It does not refer to the death of a fetus from entirely natural causes, or through the spontaneous abortion of a pregnancy where the life of the fetus could not be maintained artificially ex utero.