Femicide femicide can also include deaths as a result of female genital mutilation, the intentional spreading of HIV/AIDS, and the unsafe abortions in countries where access to abortion is stymied or illegal. Intimate partner femicide, sometimes called intimate femicide, refers to "the killing of a woman by her intimate partner or her former intimate partner". These include former or current boyfriends, husbands and common-law husbands. This form of femicide accounts for 40–50% of all deaths of American women killed, and each day in the United States results in the deaths of four women. Spain, on the other hand, reports an intimate
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