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• n  a person who murders an infant
• n  murdering an infant

• Horror stories emerged about forced late-term abortions and infanticide--girls were often abandoned by parents who wished instead for a boy.
• Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dorothy Bloch, 66, believes she knows why: the small child has an "almost built-in" fear of infanticide, which these hoary horror stories help expunge.
• For India's langur monkeys, infanticide works In his classic work On Aggression, Nobel Laureate Konrad Lorenz argued that man is the only species that regularly kills.

News & Articles

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• Infanticide: The Old Barbarism is New Again
  Earlier this year the word "infanticide" wormed its way into the national consciousness. A video surfaced of Planned Parenthood spokesperson Lisa Snow advocating for infanticide.
  July 31, 2013 - The Christian Post
• The ultra-violent origins of monogamy
  Male infanticide may play a role
  July 31, 2013 - The Week via Yahoo! News
• Why are some mammals monogamous? Two definitive studies not so definitive.
  One says some mammals are monogamous to prevent infanticide. The other says they are monogamous because females are spread too widely for males to have multiple mates.
  July 30, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor

Quotes

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• President Bush in USA Today
  Abortion opponents argue that the name aptly describes "a rarely used and gruesome late-term abortion procedure that resembles infanticide," as the Bush administration said in its legal filings.
• Tom Tancredo in Forbes
  Tancredo, a Colorado congressman, called the procedure at issue a "barbaric practice of infanticide" and termed Roe v. Wade a "moral and intellectual travesty."
• Andrew Keen in Toronto Star
  History has proven that the crowd is not often very wise,Keen writes. "After all, many unwise ideas - slavery, infanticide, George W. Bush's war in Iraq, Britney Spears - have been extremely popular with the crowd. This is why the arbiters...