`Baby Doe' bid fails // Judge refuses to release confidential records

In an unprecedented opinion, a federal judge ruled yesterdaythat a right-to-life group is not entitled to confidential recordsinvolving the death of "Baby Doe" four years ago in Indiana.

U.S. District Judge Ilana D. Rovner ruled the National LeagueCenter for the Medically Dependent and Disabled, based inIndianapolis, could not look at records from a federal Health andHuman Services Department probe into possible discrimination againstthe handicapped infant.

The child, born with Downs Syndrome and a defective esophagus,died six days after his parents agreed in April, 1982, to supply itwith food and …