Tish: I’ll fight for women

Attorney general candidate and Public Advocate Letitia James said she'd seek broader authority to prosecute people who block entrances to abortion clinics if elected, part of a reproductive rights platform she unveiled to the Daily News.

“I will use every tool at my disposal as Attorney General to protect the right to reproductive healthcare by taking legal actions, launching investigations, and fighting for the right to choose,” James said in a statement.

That would include seeking criminal prosecutions against people who breach the statemandated 15-foot “buffer zone” around health clinics that provide abortions, created to keep protesters from getting too close to women who need health care.

James said she'd seek injunctions against any groups violating the zone, as has been done in the past, but would go further by seeking a standing referral from the governor to allow her to bring criminal charges against people who try to block entry into the clinics. That would allow the statewide approach James says she'd take.