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When epidurals and other methods of reducing pain in childbirth started to become common in the Christian world, were there any religious objections to their use based on the passage in Genesis where God punishes women by making childbirth painful?

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When epidurals and other methods of reducing pain in childbirth started to become common in the Christian world, were there any religious objections to their use based on the passage in Genesis where God punishes women by making childbirth painful?	178