§ 4550. Admissibility of evidence related to legally protected health
activity. Evidence relating to the involvement of a party engaging in
one or more legally protected health activity, as defined in paragraph
(b) of subdivision one of section 570.17 of the criminal procedure law,
relating to providing reproductive health services to persons not
physically present in this state shall not be offered against such party
as evidence that such party has engaged in any wrongdoing, whether
civil, criminal, professional, or otherwise by virtue of such recipients
of such services not being physically present in this state. Nothing in
this section shall prevent a party from offering such evidence in a
proceeding that (i) sounds in tort or contract, (ii) is actionable, in
an equivalent or similar manner, under the laws of this state, and (iii)
was brought by the patient who received reproductive health services, or
the patient's legal representative.