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What is the difference between Female Infanticide and Female Foeticide?

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Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of newborn female children.

Female foeticide is a practice in which female foetus is killed before being born.​

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Female infanticide- Female infanticide is the intentional killing of infant girls. In addition to the active methods undertaken to eliminate baby girls soon after birth, neglect and discrimination leading to death and sex-selective abortion are also means by which many female children die each year.
Female foeticide- Female foeticide in India is the act of killing a female foetus outside of the legal channels of abortion. It occurs in India for assumed cultural reasons that span centuries.
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female infanticide- Killing of girls soon after the birth intentionally
female foeticide - Killing of girls in the mother's womb . the sex of child can be found uot by medical process but it is illegal.
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