[1] Dr. Michael H. Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato have alternatively referred to this crime as "fetus-snatching" or "fetus abduction.
"[3] In the small number of reported cases, a few pregnant victims and about half of their fetuses survived the assault and non-medically performed cesarean.
However, the "Children of the Disappeared" (desaparecidos) in the Argentine Dirty War are an example of criminal fetal abduction in state institutions as detailed by testimonies on cesarean delivery on desaparecidas and child adoption in a military hospital.
[5][6] Historical cases of cesarean extraction for fetal murder (not for child adoption) fall outside the subject definition.
[7] Fetal abductions typically start with the lie that the perpetrator is pregnant and often coincide with a fear of losing a romantic partner.