A "rural woman" rhetoric rant

Working in the p-l movement, I have the "privilege" of hearing p-c arguments on a daily basis. One of my "favorites" (insert sarcasm here) is that we can't regulate abortion, and we must force pharmacists to supply abortifacients against their will, because rural woman need abortion/abortifacients and can't get them anywhere else.

As a rural woman, this patronizing, condescending attitude is totally offensive.

And lately, the other side has had a new argument. We must force pharmacists to fill abortifacient prescriptions because rural women don't have access to the internet. Really. I just read that this week in a Ninth Circuit court filing.

Newsflash: We do have the internet. And we even-- BLOG! [gasp!]

Now, I understand that poorer women in rural areas may not have access to the internet. They may not have access to healthcare. But that is not any different than poor women in the city. Poor women in the city don't necessarily have the internet or health insurance, either.

This singling out of the rural community by big city hotshot attorneys who have probably never been outside of a coastal-state city is so irritating to me.

So here is one more newsflash: we rural hicks actually know how to take care of ourselves-- we are likely more self-sufficient than the city folk. We know how to grow/raise our own food [In fact-- that cheeseburger you're eating right now? Raised in Illinois. I knew her sister]. We make pies from scratch. We know home remedies you've never dreamed of.

We even have Walmart.

And we don't drive our tractors to get there.