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Bus rider banned for giving birth control advice

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76-year-old Laura Stevens thinks that some of her fellow bus riders in Logan, Utah have too many children and isn't hesitant to tell them so. She's been doling out unsolicited advice about birth control to mothers in the bus station who she feels might not be aware of their contraceptive choices.

Her intrusion into the very personal choices of others led Todd Beutler, general manager of the Cache Valley Transit District, to have her arrested for trespassing and banned from the bus station. "She's been making comments to some of the Hispanic passengers that they should be on the pill, that they're taking over our society," he said.

Stevens thinks the ban violates her First Amendment rights and plans to fight the trespassing charge. Speaking about a mother she saw struggling with her six children, Stevens says "I felt sorry for her. Maybe she doesn't know that she could get a patch and not have a kid for five years."

Since this woman is so keen on giving advice to others, maybe she won't mind if I give her a little advice of my own: mind your own business.

By they way, that's not Stevens in the photo, but don't you imagine it could be?

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