To the woman he said, "I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labour you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
That is what the Bible says in Genesis 3-16. The last sentence in the verse may appear to be feminist in the minds of the present generation of gender equity proponents. So, I will ignore it and concentrate on the first part- that which describes the pains and suffering of women during child birth.
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