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"On Tuesday night, as the world tuned in to Texas State Senator Wendy Davis&amp;apos; epic abortion-rights filibuster, Bay Area rapper Lil B was on tour in the Netherlands. After hearing what was happening in Texas, he sent out a message in solidarity to his 700,000 Twitter followers: &amp;quot;SHOUT OUT TO WENDY DAVIS STAY #BASED AND POSITIVE! FIGHT FOR WOMENS RIGHT!&amp;quot; In this exclusive op-ed, Lil B explains why he supports women&amp;apos;s right to make their own medical decisions. \r\nI like to speak about things that I&amp;apos;m passionate about, and when I got word about what was going on in Texas, it&amp;apos;s something I wanted to talk about with everybody. I support women&amp;apos;s rights. I don&amp;apos;t talk about it a lot, but it&amp;apos;s definitely something that hits close to home for me.\r\nI support Wendy Davis, and I stand with her. When politicians try to restrict women&amp;apos;s rights, it hurts. These things should be up to women. There are a lot of different situations where pregnancy comes about &amp;#x2013; as a man, it&amp;apos;s hard for me to make a decision on that. It&amp;apos;s up to a woman how she wants to bring a child into the world, or if she wants to continue with her life and mature more and bring a child in when she&amp;apos;s ready. It needs to be an option. There are people who say, &amp;quot;Hey, you shouldn&amp;apos;t have sex,&amp;quot; or that it&amp;apos;s like killing a human. But my viewpoint is, I&amp;apos;m not the one having a kid, so why does my opinion matter? It should be up to the woman.\r\nI respect where the Republicans come from &amp;#x2013; I&amp;apos;m trying to understand their perspective. But I really do feel like it&amp;apos;s a woman&amp;apos;s choice. When it&amp;apos;s a bunch of men voting on women&amp;apos;s rights, I don&amp;apos;t know. How can a man really understand that? I&amp;apos;m not going to feel a woman&amp;apos;s pain and what she goes through. Observing from my perspective, and seeing what I see, I think women should definitely have full control over their bodies.\r\nWomen&amp;apos;s rights are something that I really care about. Girls of all ages support me, and I want to do what I can to help women feel good. Because that&amp;apos;s going to help out guys, too, you know? And it&amp;apos;s going to help the world in general. We need to understand each other &amp;#x2013; more empathy, just continuously trying to learn about other people&amp;apos;s situations. Love is the cure to everything.\r\nWendy Davis matters. She&amp;apos;s a woman fighting for what&amp;apos;s right. A lot of people aren&amp;apos;t agreeing with her; she&amp;apos;s doing something that&amp;apos;s out of the norm. A lot of people who do agree are scared to speak, or they&amp;apos;re not in a position to be heard. So I definitely respect Ms. Davis for planting new seeds for women&amp;apos;s rights. I&amp;apos;m trying to do that on my level, too. I think women are going to keep excelling. We&amp;apos;re going to have a woman president. We need more women in the workforce, way more women involved in running everything. That&amp;apos;s our problem.\r\nAs told to Simon Vozick-Levinson\r\n\r\nSTAY STRONG #WOMEN EVEN IN THIS MALE DOMINATED GOVERNMENT, STAY POSITIVE! YOUR BODY IS YOURS! MY MOTHERS BODY AND LIFE IS HER CHOICE - Lil B\r\n&amp;#x2014; Lil B From The Pack (@LILBTHEBASEDGOD) June 26, 2013\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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