Bush seeks access to abortion records:

"In a departure from its past insistence on the sanctity of US medical records, the Bush Administration is trying to force hospitals and clinics to turn over records of perhaps thousands of abortions...

The demand for files... seeks records of any second-trimester abortion in which there were complications; cases relating to a foetus's death following injections by chemical agents; medical malpractice documents; and the names of all doctors who have performed abortions over the past three years. "