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TIL Sarah M. Pratt, wife of Orson Pratt who was an original apostle in the Mormon Church, claimed that Joseph Smith’s polygamous marriages never produced offspring because Smith had his doctor, John. C Bennett, practice abortion “on a large scale” during their time in Nauvoo, Illinois.

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