prolicide

Latin proles (“offspring”) + caedere (“kill”). Equivalent to +‎ -cide.

prolicide (countable and uncountable, plural prolicides)

1. (uncountable) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth[1823].
   • 1827, Robley Dunglison, Syllabus of the Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, page 93:

     PROLICIDE […] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.

2. (countable) One who commits prolicide.
   • 1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and State Medicine, page 283:

     Perhaps they had accommodated the foregoing statement to the casuistical axiom, non homo est, qui non futurus est, which is a very agreeable one to prolicides.

• filicide, infanticide, neonaticide; abortion

• “prolicide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.