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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
S04173Enacts the reproductive health care facilities and religious worship access act; provides that the crime of criminal interference with health care services or religious worship shall be established by the mens rea of knowingly injuring, intimidating or interfering with a person obtaining or providing or assisting in obtaining or providing reproductive health services or a place of religious worship; includes in the definition of such crime engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing acts within twenty-five feet of the premises of a reproductive health care facility or a place of religious worship; defines such premises; provides for a civil cause of action for any person harmed by conduct constituting such a crime.
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Abortionprovider clinic regulationAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 90%
Creates new criminal offenses and civil remedies for interference, intimidation, recording, doxxing or buffer-zone activities near reproductive health care facilities, so more legal limits on such conduct at abortion clinics.
such person engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts, or attempts to engage in a course of conduct or repeatedly commit acts, within twenty-five feet of the premises of a reproductive health care facility in order to discourage another person from obtaining or providing, or assisting in obtaining or providing, reproductive health care services when such behavior places such other person in reasonable fear of harm
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AbortionexceptionsAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 70%
Exempts a parent or legal guardian of a minor from prosecution for certain interference with reproductive health services directed exclusively at that minor, so narrower application of the new criminal restrictions in limited cases.
A parent or legal guardian of a minor shall not be subject to prosecution for conduct otherwise prohibited by subdivision one of this section which is directed exclusively at such minor.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends Penal Law § 240.70 to expand criminal interference offenses (with new buffer-zone, recording, and doxxing provisions) and civil remedies specifically to protect access to reproductive health services, which the text defines to include termination of pregnancy; this adds regulatory and enforcement limits on protest or interference at abortion clinics (restricts abortion access axis via provider-clinic-regulation). It also adds parallel protections for places of religious worship but those provisions do not address any listed topic. One narrow parental exemption for interference,
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