Little People, Big World stars Zach and Tori Roloff are receiving a lot of backlash after sharing their thoughts on abortion while opening up about their miscarriage experience.
In a new episode of the couple's Raising Heights podcast, they seemingly opened up about the miscarriage Tori experienced in March 2021 before she welcomed their third child. "Ohhhh this one is about to get spicy, but let us have it!! We opened up about what it felt like to lose a baby and how traumatizing that situation was for Tori on last weeks episode!! Let us know your thoughts!" the caption read.
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Tori described herself as apolitical.
“To me, when you get pregnant, that’s a baby, you know, and so when we lost that baby, it was like, we just lost a part of our family,” Tori started off. “Previous to this situation, I was very apolitical. But I think being in that room and being as traumatized as I was, it became black and white for me in that room. I’m not OK with this. Like, I would never choose to be this room and I don’t understand how someone could choose to be in that room.”
Zach compared the situation to driving while intoxicated.
Zach acknowledged that there are a “small percentage” of situations in which women get pregnant from being sexually assaulted, but then went on to share his opinion on “the majority.” “If I go out and have beers at the bar and drink and drive, get in an accident, I’m going to jail, you know it’s a consequence I chose,” he said. “We don’t think about this, that the choice to have sex, that was the choice. We want to choose the consequence, the outcome.”
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Tori doesn't agree abortion is health care.
Tori then responded, saying that's where she struggles to get on board with the idea of abortion. She then shared her thoughts on people who believe that it's health care, saying, “It’s like no, no, no, no.”
Viewers were not too happy.
“The DNC you got?” one person commented. “It's an abortion. Meaning HEALTHCARE. You would have gone septic and died without it. But go on about how it's not healthcare.”
Another user wrote: “Just because you can't understand why someone would make that choice, doesn't mean you get to take away someone else's ability to make it. What was traumatizing for you may be traumatizing adversely for someone else — like being forced to go through with a pregnancy they do not want.”
Tori responded to the backlash.
Tori followed up to clarify what she had said.
While a user wrote, “You literally receive healthcare by getting a D&C when you lose a baby. That’s on the table to be taken away when there’s an abortion ban. The hypocrisy is unsettling here,” the mom replied, “I 1000% see this point and in that aspect, I see where it is necessary. If you listen to the whole episode, you’ll realize that was not what I was talking about. I was talking about the women who choose to be in that room.” In another comment she wrote, “I mean it is our podcast based solely on speaking what we are passionate about.”
Watch the full podcast episode here.
