The Health and Social Care Bill aims to hand over control of local NHS budgets to GP consortia and make it easier for private firms as well as voluntary and community organisations to run services.
But Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, said midwives are "becoming increasingly uncomfortable about the direction of NHS reforms".
She said: "The level of competition that the reforms will bring in will lead to fragmentation of services. Trusts will be competing against each other not collaborating, and collaboration not competition is the key to better care. This would be a backward step for maternity services."
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