NRAAC Nat'l Chair Says, She Would be Damned if She Keeps Quiet About Limbaugh's Comments Regarding Women
NRAAC Nat'l Chair Dr. Jean Howard-Hill
"I'd be damned (and I literally mean it), if as a GOP woman I sit back and be silent after hearing the deplorable comments made by Rush Limbaugh."
Once again the National Republican African American Caucus National Chair, Dr. Jean Howard-Hill speaks out. This time she is more than just a little heated over the way in which the GOP remains silent while Rush Limbaugh insults women.
"What is wrong with the GOP and what is wrong with GOP women who are sitting back, saying nothing about the outrageously offensive and sexually explicit comments made by Limbaugh over the past two days?" Asks the outspoken NRAAC chair.
"Are we so partisanly blinded that we will allow these kinds of deplorable and offensive comments to be made regarding women, without GOP women and the GOP leadership denouncing it? Well, I'd be damned (and I literally mean it), if as a GOP woman I sit back and be silent after hearing the deplorable comments made by someone who dubs himself as a conservative voice of the party."
She is referring to the reaction of Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh to the comments from Foster Friess about birth control; and Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who was denied the opportunity to speak at the recent House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing on contraceptives, but testified at an official hearing.
Friess' statement made light of the issue of reproductive health for women in saying, "You know, back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly."
On air, Limbaugh claimed, a Georgetown coed had said that the women in her law school program are having so much sex they're going broke. To this he remarked, "So you and I should have to pay for their birth control. So what would you call that? I called it what it is. So, I'm offering a compromise today. I will buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want."
In that airing Limbaugh also called Sandra Fluke, (the Georgetown University law student who advocated for employer's coverage of contraceptives within health plans), a "slut" and a "prostitute". If that was not bad enough, he has continued to add even more insults.
Taking it beyond insult and into sexual explicit vulgarity and disrespect for women, Limbaugh went on to rant that if women want their contraception covered, they should post pornographic videos of themselves online.
His exact words are, "So Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal, if we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."
Contrary to what Limbaugh is implying, according to multiple media sources, Fluke says that what she shared with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was an account of her friend who had an ovary removed because of the failure of her insurance to cover the prescription for birth control she needed to stop the growth of an ovarian cyst.
"Regardless of whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, this is just plain old wrong and offensive to all women," says Howard-Hill. "If more than 75 Democratic lawmakers can sign a letter to Republican House Speaker John Boehner expressing outrage, where are the Republican congressional leadership in denouncing this? More pointed, where are the Republican congressional members and those voices from Republican women's groups?"
"Republican Women have to stop being docile and being used as political pawns at any cost just to win the 2012 presidential race. We have to take our places and be about advocating for ourselves. If ever there was a time to speak out", she declares, "it is now. This is the Hour of the Republican woman to wake-up, get-up and stand-up for what is right and to not just sit back and have this kind of foolishness take place, un-denounced."
This is not the first, nor shall it be the last time Howard-Hill is encouraging GOP women to take their places in the Republican Party. As one of the headliners for the GOPink Conference in November 2011, in her speech she called it the "Hour of the GOP Woman".
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| Dr. Howard-Hill proclaims the Hour of the Republican Woman at GOPink National Conference |
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The NRAAC has been around for over 12 years, and prior to this it existed as two separate organizations, the National Black Republican Women's Organization in which Dr. Howard-Hill headed and the National Black Republican Men for Change which was headed by her husband, the late Attorney Bobby Lee Hill. Both organizations began in 1987 and after the death of Mr. Hill in 1991; they were combined in 1999 to form the National Republican African American Caucus.
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