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Therefore I'm disappointed to see anyone repeating this apparent canard. I wonder if they know they are keeping company with John Edwards?

Hate to say this, but Edwards did his homework!

From The Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities about Cerebral Palsy:

CP often originates when oxygen is cut off to the motor cells in an infant's brain. The oxygen deprivation may occur just prior to birth, during a difficult birth, because of prematurity, infection or by a brain injury in the first two years of life. Once the damage is done it can not be changed, but early therapy and/or surgery may increase abilities.

Living and Aging with Cerebral Palsy

The Merck Manual is used in medical training. Their definition says:

Many different types of injury to the brain can cause cerebral palsy, and most often a specific cause cannot be identified. Birth injuries and poor oxygen supply to the brain before, during, and immediately after birth cause 10 to 15% of cases.

Merck Manual

From the Cleveland Clinic/causes of Cerebral Palsy:

Lack of oxygen to the baby's during development or delivery

Cleveland Clinic

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If you go to the NIH links I provided earlier then you'll see that this is far from settled. We can get into a link war. You provide links that say yes and I provide links that say not so fast.

And I'm still having trouble understanding a mechanism how saline in utero causes oxygen deprivation when the oxygen supply comes through the umbilicus.