"Her diagnosis was a cancerous brain tumor requiring chemotherapy….Because a pregnancy would aggravate her fragile medical condition, the doctor ordered Abby not to have been any more children. But polygamist women are to have a child per year so she had three more babies. The last one she delivered while dying—unconscious, without knowing she had given birth."
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Andrea Moore-Emmett, God’s Brothel, Part 2, “The Women Who Escaped” Chapter 9, “Cora” (p. 126)
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