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Should men be allowed into the delivery room as their women give birth?

While baby making is an enjoyable joint-activity between a man and a woman, child birth --the painful bit-- is normally left to the woman. After all, and holy Book has it, child birth pain is God’s curse and punishment to women after Eve misled Adam into sin by disobeying Him. Thus, yes, to borrow women’s parlance, ‘we’ may be pregnant, but expecting ‘us’ to experience the pain of childbirth together is pushing the joke a bit too far!

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