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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
S08599Relates to certain crimes of interference with health care services or access to places of religious worship; expands interference to include groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demonstrate twenty-five feet outside of reproductive health care facilities and places of religious worship.
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Abortionprovider clinic regulationAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 90%
Expands the definition of criminal interference with reproductive health services to include groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demonstrate within 25 feet of reproductive health care facilities, creating a new buffer zone that restricts such demonstrations.
(e) groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demon- strate outside of a reproductive health care facility fail to maintain twenty-five feet of distance from such facility, including its parking lot entrances, driveway and driveway entrances of such facilities;
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Abortionbans gestational limitsAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 70%
Broadens the existing criminal interference statute (which already covers interference with obtaining or providing reproductive health services, including termination of pregnancy) by adding buffer-zone and property-damage provisions, resulting in more restrictions on activities around facilities.
the term "reproductive health services" means health care services provided in a hospital, clinic, physician's office or other facility and includes medical, surgical, counseling or referral services relating to the human reproductive system, including services relating to pregnancy or the termination of a pregnancy
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends Penal Law §240.70 to expand criminal interference offenses related to reproductive health services (explicitly including termination of pregnancy) by adding new paragraphs (e) and (f) that criminalize groups demonstrating or preparing to demonstrate within 25 feet of reproductive health facilities or places of religious worship. It also updates definitions of health care facility, interferes with, intimidates, physical obstruction, reproductive health services, and place of religious worship, plus gender-neutral language. This restricts access to abortion by limiting protests/d
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