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The Woman and the 20-Pound Tumor

Published: Jan. 28, 2017, 4:16 p.m.

b'(Lesley) In the age before anesthesia, what would you do with a pregnancy that would not end? Would you accept a doctor\'s diagnosis of death or would you press to find any possible treatment? This episode follows the story of Jane Todd Crawford, who traveled 60 miles by horseback to end a two-year "pregnancy"... and rode herself into the history books.'