Assembly Democrats approved legislation Tuesday blocking the extradition of doctors who provide legal telehealth services to states with strict limits on abortion.

The bill, which passed the state Senate in late May, will become law if signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is expected to approve the idea.

“As anti-choice extremists continue to roll back reproductive care across the country, New York remains a sanctuary state for access,” Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) said.

“It is our moral obligation to help women across the country with their bodily autonomy by protecting New York doctors from litigation efforts from anti-choice extremists.”

The bill is the latest example of progressives institutionalizing abortion rights in New York – even for out-of-state residents – following the controversial 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Hochul and Democratic lawmakers have already teamed up on a growing list of ideas to safeguard reproductive rights such as protecting doctors from out-of-state legal actions, expanding abortion access at public colleges, and stockpiling key drugs.

Albany Democrats last year approved legislation blocking other states from prosecuting doctors who provide medical services that are legal in New York.

The newly-passed bill will do the same for doctors delivering telehealth services.

Idaho in April became the first state in the nation to criminalize traveling out of state for abortions.

Hochul, an outspoken supporter of abortion rights, did not provide immediate comment.

Assemblyman Andy Goodell (R-Jamestown) on Tuesday evening railed against the bill, which he argued would break with the longstanding practice of New York honoring extradition requests from other states.

But Assemblywoman Karines Reyes (D-Bronx) countered that the bill only protects doctors for legal services they provide within New York.

The bill would have no effect on extraditing people accused of crimes that are illegal in New York as well as other places – whether or not lawmakers there are targeting abortion services and the doctors who provide them.

“I continue to be deeply concerned with anti-choice activists’ efforts to undermine doctors in their ability to adequately provide for their patients and to undermine the patient’s control of their own body,” Reyes said in a statement.

“These anti-choice bills have a tangibly negative impact on patients’ health and well-being and New York refuses to stand for it.”