When a member of the US House of Representatives questioned why a man should have to contribute to pregnancy insurance during a recent town hall meeting in Dubuque Iowa, he was met with considerable backlash from those assembled.

However, it was the response of a woman named Barbara Rank which garnered the most attention in the days following Rod Blum's controversial remarks.

In response to Mr Blum's demands to 'get rid of some of these crazy regulations that Obamacare puts in such as a 62-year-old male having to have pregnancy insurance', Barbara put pen to paper and explained why the Congressman's demands had little grounding in reality.

"Congressman Rod Blum in a Dubuque town hall (Monday) night asked, “Why should a 62-year-old man have to pay for maternity care?" Barbara began in a letter to her local paper. "I ask, why should I pay for a bridge I don’t cross, a sidewalk I don’t walk on, a library book I don’t read?"
 

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"Why should I pay for a flower I won’t smell, a park I don’t visit, or art I can’t appreciate? Why should I pay the salaries of politicians I didn’t for, a tax cut that doesn’t affect me, or a loophole I can’t take advantage of?"

"It’s called democracy, a civil society, the greater good. That’s what we pay for," she finished in a letter which has made its way online and received more than 100,000 upvotes on Reddit.

Speaking to The Washington Post, Barbara admitted she was stunned by Blum's remarks as well as the reaction of the online community, saying: "Come on, didn’t we learn this in fifth-grade social studies?"

And that, ladies, is how it's done.