I am very suspicious of anyone who is against a birth plan!

Sounds like this midwife just wants her patients docile, compliant and doing what they are told, rather than having an active role in their health care.

Maybe when pregnant and labouring women can expect their health care and any potential treatments to be undertaken in the best interests of their health and their babies health, and not just undertaken for the medico legal interests of the hospital, then a birth plan may become unneccessary.