Safe access zones should be created around New South Wales abortion clinics to stop protesters harassing women who use them, state Labor MP Penny Sharpe says.

Ms Sharpe plans to introduce a private members' bill to create a 150-metre buffer zone around clinics after similar measures were adopted in Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT.

She said women were forced to "run the gauntlet" when entering reproductive health centres.

"There are regularly people standing out the front, they try to talk to women on the way in, they show them very graphic images of foetuses, and they often verbally harass them, making allegations about being child murderers," Ms Sharpe said.

The bill, if passed, would amend the Summary Offences Act and give police special move-on powers.

Ms Sharpe said the proposed changes would not restrict the right to protest or freedom of speech, and would only apply to abortion clinics.

"This isn't about protest laws at all. It's about women's access to health facilities and having privacy in doing so," she said.

"In Victoria, this matter was looked at very closely — that's a state where they have a Charter of Human Rights — and it was seen to not violate the right to protest."

Abortion protesters 'offering women help'

But anti-abortion group Right to Life Australia said the proposal was about protecting commercial interests.

"The people outside the abortion businesses are really offering women help, and of course, that's bad for the bottom line of the abortion business," the group's chief executive, Katrina Haller, said.

Members of My Body, My Right have created their own human buffer zone outside a clinic in Surry Hills. ( Supplied: My Body, My Right/Laura Carolan )

"If the abortion doesn't take place, no-one gets paid."

Ms Sharpe said her proposal was in response to anti-abortion campaigners approaching women outside clinics in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills and Albury, in the state's south, which she said she had witnessed herself.

Anti-abortion campaigners have lined the streets outside Surry Hills centre, The Private Clinic, for years.

But they were recently joined by pro-abortion community advocacy collective My Body, My Right, who have been creating their own "safe zone but of human bodies" outside the clinic since November last year.

Founding member Bethany Sheehan said the community was "well and truly sick of" abortion clinic protesters and Ms Sharpe's bill was welcome.

"We needed to do something as a community ourselves to create the change that we wanted to see," she said.

Paul Hanrahan, the executive director of Family Life International Australia and a long-time Surry Hills anti-abortion campaigner, said Ms Sharpe's calls for a buffer zone were "ridiculous".

"How do you put a buffer zone around something technically illegal?" he said, citing sections of the NSW Crimes Act.

Mr Hanrahan said there were "plenty of people" in Surry Hills that supported his organisation's position, adding that the My Body, My Right group had refused Mr Hanrahan's requests to talk, despite multiple offers.

Meanwhile, Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi has engaged in consultations about a separate private members' bill which seeks to not only enact buffer zones, but to also decriminalise abortion in NSW.

Abortion remains a crime in NSW and Queensland, and is only legal when a woman's physical or mental health is considered at risk.

Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton, Health Minister Jillian Skinner and Minister for Women Pru Goward were contacted for comment.