A recent study suggests they are. A research team led by Dr. Michael Kramer of McGill University found that the decision to induce labor has become “socially contagious.”Kramer’s team examined data from all states on non-Hispanic white women for two different time periods. The first was 1992 to 1994. The second was 2002 to 2004.The researchers found that the increase in pre-term births had risen along with the frequency of induced labor. During the periods