The Justice Department is attempting to force six Planned Parenthood affiliates to hand over private medical records of women who had received abortions. The Planned Parenthood affiliates are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, San Diego, Pennsylvania and Kansas. The subpoenas follow similar demands placed on five hospitals in the Northeast and Midwest. The hospitals have resisted those requests. The Justice Department said it needed to obtain the records in order to help it determine if some late term abortions are medically necessary. Planned Parenthood and other groups have filed lawsuits seeking to overturn the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, which was signed into law last fall.