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.