Beverley Lawrence Beech obituary

Campaigner who fought against the medicalisation of birth and exposed damaging practices that harmed women during labourIn the 1970s, in what the gynaecologist Wendy Savage called “the biggest unevaluated medical experiment in the world”, more than 80% of births took place in hospital, with procedures such as artificial induction of labour commonplace.The activist Beverley Lawrence Beech, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 78, was vehemently opposed to the medicalisation of birth