The NSW government is considering whether it will support legislation to stop women being harassed outside abortion clinics, the state's minister for women says.
Tanya Davies, who has previously said she is personally pro-life, would not be drawn on her stance on the private members bill on Thursday.
"The government's response to this bill, like all non-government bills, is a matter for cabinet," she said in a statement to AAP.
"It would be inappropriate for me to comment on the bill until cabinet has considered its position which has yet to occur".
Women are currently being "forced to run the gauntlet" when entering reproductive health centres across the state, Labor MLC Penny Sharpe says.
"It is unacceptable that women are forced to look at distorted graphic images and told they are murderers and are going to hell," she told parliament as she introduced the bill.
"It is unacceptable that women are jostled and filmed. It is unacceptable that the dedicated staff are often followed and harassed on their way into and out of work."
If passed the laws will create 150-metre "safe access zones" around health services that provide family planning, reproductive health or abortion services.
It comes after similar measures were adopted in Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT.
Ms Sharpe says she's often told of cases where so-called "sidewalk counsellors" push brochures and signs at the women, get in their faces and block entry to clinics and call them "child murderers".
The bill, set to be debated in coming months, would amend the Summary Offences Act.
It would not restrict the right to protest or freedom of speech, Ms Sharpe said.
Ms Davies caused a stir when she revealed her anti-abortion views just one day into the job as NSW's new minister for women.
"Personally I am pro-life ... but in my role I am there to support all women," she said after taking her oath of service in January.
Feminist group Women's Electoral Lobby slammed the comments, arguing the overwhelming majority of NSW residents were pro-choice.
Abortion is still a crime in NSW and Queensland and is only legal when a woman's physical or mental health is considered at risk.
Several doctors have argued the laws are ambiguous, outdated and leave both patients and doctors in a potential legal bind.
A bill to remove abortion from the state's criminal code was introduced to parliament by NSW Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi last year.
