2023 New York Laws › PEN - Penal › Part 3 - Specific Offenses › Title N - Offenses Against Public Order, Public Sensibilities and the Right to Privacy › Article 240 - Offenses Against Public Order › 240.70 - Criminal Interference With Health Care Services or Religious Worship in the Second Degree.

§  240.70  Criminal  interference with health care services or religious
worship in the second degree.
1. A person is guilty of criminal interference with health services or
religious worship in the second degree when:
(a) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, he or  she
intentionally  injures,  intimidates  or interferes with, or attempts to
injure, intimidate or interfere with, another person because such  other
person was or is obtaining or providing reproductive health services; or
(b)  by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, he or she
intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with,  or  attempts  to
injure,  intimidate  or  interfere  with,  another  person  in  order to
discourage such other  person  or  any  other  person  or  persons  from
obtaining or providing reproductive health services; or
(c)  by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, he or she
intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with,  or  attempts  to
injure, intimidate or interfere with, another person because such person
was  or is seeking to exercise the right of religious freedom at a place
of religious worship; or
(d) he or she intentionally damages the  property  of  a  health  care
facility,   or  attempts  to  do  so,  because  such  facility  provides
reproductive health services, or intentionally damages the property of a
place of religious worship.
2. A parent or legal guardian of a  minor  shall  not  be  subject  to
prosecution  for conduct otherwise prohibited by paragraph (a) or (b) of
subdivision one of this section which is directed  exclusively  at  such
minor.
3. For purposes of this section:
(a)  the  term  "health  care  facility"  means  a  hospital,  clinic,
physician's office or other facility that provides  reproductive  health
services,  and  includes the building or structure in which the facility
is located;
(b) the term "interferes with" means to restrict a person's freedom of
movement;
(c) the term "intimidates" means  to  place  a  person  in  reasonable
apprehension  of  physical  injury  to  himself or herself or to another
person;
(d) the term "physical obstruction" means rendering impassable ingress
to or egress from a facility that provides reproductive health  services
or  to  or from a place of religious worship, or rendering passage to or
from  such  a  facility  or  place  of  religious  worship  unreasonably
difficult or hazardous; and
(e) 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.
Criminal  interference  with health care services or religious worship
in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.