Did AI erase mothers’ complaints about natural birth ideology?

An AI program is alleged to have ignored the evidence of hundreds of mothers who blamed traumatic labours on the pursuit of a normal birth ideology in the NHS.

Mothers who suffered harm when giving birth gave their evidence to a landmark review of maternity care in England led by Baroness Amos. 

Transcripts of interviews and panel discussions, testimonies, and reports of their care were among more than 10,500 submissions given to the inquiry. Many contained devastating accounts from mothers denied pain relief, who had caesarean sections refused and had concerns about their babies dismissed because they believed doctors and midwives wanted them to have a natural birth.

Yet when Amos published her report into maternity care in June it concluded: “We did not find that normal birth ideology was currently widespread.”

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Source: The Times, 31 October 2026