Effort to make ‘intentional exposure’ to STDs a crime in Louisiana fails

Effort to make ‘intentional exposure’ to STDs a crime in Louisiana fails

Rep. Patricia Moore, D-Monroe, at the Louisiana State Capitol on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (John Gray/Verite News)A Louisiana House committee shelved a bill Wednesday that would have made it illegal for someone to “intentionally” expose another person to an “incurable” sexually transmitted disease after steep concerns that criminalization could worsen the state’s proliferating STD rates. This was the second time Rep. Patricia Moore, D-Monroe, had …