{"id":176627,"date":"2017-12-23T09:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=176627"},"modified":"2017-12-23T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T23:59:11","slug":"former-planned-parenthood-manager-speaks-part-two-abortionists-arent-obgyns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-planned-parenthood-manager-speaks-part-two-abortionists-arent-obgyns\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Planned Parenthood manager speaks: ‘Some abortionists aren’t OB\/GYNs’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is part two of a three-part series, taken from an\u00a0exclusive Live Action News interview with a former Planned Parenthood manager. Read part one here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Crystal Eldridge, former Planned Parenthood manager<\/p><\/div>\n

Crystal Eldridge, who has a Bachelor\u2019s degree in health and human services, managed the entire Winston-Salem Planned Parenthood<\/a> location from March to September of 2017. (Part one of her story can be seen here<\/a>.) Crystal was in charge of the staff, scheduling, and daily operations. But sometimes, she had to leave the front offices and lend a hand back in the area where abortions<\/a> were done. She told Live Action News, \u201cI had to cover when staff wasn\u2019t there\u2026 so when a patient went in for an abortion, I would go in and hold her hand\u2026. I didn\u2019t agree with what they were doing but I didn\u2019t want them to be terrified, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crystal says that often, after a procedure, she would \u201csanitize the floor, sanitize the table, take the bowl or jar\u2026 into the POC room for examination\u201d and \u201ctake speculums, the needles, and all that out of the room.\u201d<\/p>\n

While a family nurse practitioner was at the Winston-Salem facility for family planning days to help clients with things like contraception and STD testing, abortionists were only there on abortion days, twice weekly. (Abby Johnson actually stated<\/a> that this is how it is with Planned Parenthood in general; physicians only show up to commit abortions. She said, \u201cIn the eight years I worked at Planned Parenthood, our medical director never once graced us with his presence. Eight years with no direct medical supervision.\u201d)<\/p>\n

“The abortionists weren’t even trained in gynecology”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crystal told Live Action News that \u201csome of the abortionists, the doctors, are not OB\/GYN doctors.\u201d Two of the abortionists at Winston-Salem were certified OB\/GYNs, along with the medical director, and one was not (this abortionist was a family practitioner). \u201cThere were about six different [abortionists] that we went through,\u201d Crystal said.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re talking about doctors who are not even trained in the areas of gynecology, and how they\u2019re getting to learn how to do this is on-site, on location, while another doctor watches\u2026. It\u2019s disgusting. It\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was \u201cno other true medical staff,\u201d Crystal says, but the other staff, who did not have medical degrees, were trained to do things like lab work. (So much for the abortion industry\u2019s complaints and false claims<\/a> about pregnancy center workers not being qualified for the work they do\u2026.)<\/p>\n

To hear Crystal speak of the abortionists at her former facility, they were all warped in some way. \u201cThere was one [abortionist], a medical director. She would be in the POC room and literally we would dump [the baby\u2019s remains] in a Pyrex baking dish, and sift through the pieces. And she would pick up the pieces, the little hands\u2026 and go, \u2018Isn\u2019t this fascinating?\u2019 And I would just look at her and think, \u2018Hell no<\/i>, it\u2019s not fascinating, it\u2019s disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once, Crystal asked a different abortionist at her facility, \u201cDoes [committing abortions] ever bother you?\u201d And the abortionist said, \u201cNo, not at all, it\u2019s good money; why not?\u201d<\/p>\n

“It looked like a murder scene”<\/strong><\/p>\n

But despite the fact that the Planned Parenthood abortionists were medical doctors, Crystal saw some horrible things. \u201cThe worst,\u201d she said, was on her second to last day. \u201c\u2026 [I]n that location, Winston-Salem, you could only abort up to 13 weeks 6 days,\u201d Crystal said. \u201cIf you go above that, you have to go to Chapel Hill because they go up to 19 weeks and 6 days. There was a woman that came in, and on her ultrasound they gauged her around 13 weeks 6 days, the cutoff,\u201d Crystal said, but those ultrasounds are really \u201ca guesstimate\u201d and \u201ca baby can be bigger or smaller.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crystal recalled to Live Action News, \u201cI was up front and I heard screaming\u2026 I mean screaming<\/i> down the hall\u2026 [T]hey shut the double doors so the folks in the front couldn\u2019t hear all the screaming. I went back there, and they finished the procedure, but there was so much<\/i> blood, it looked like a murder scene\u2026 well, that\u2019s what it was, but it was insane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crystal said she asked the doctor what happened, and the doctor said, \u201cI think she was a little further along, I think she was around 14 1\/2 to 15 weeks.\u201d Crystal stated that apparently the problem was that \u201cthe baby wouldn\u2019t fit through the tube, so there was a lot of pulling apart with forceps. We had a lot of towels and we were having to literally put them on the floor and sop up all the blood and put them in a bucket to get it [the blood] out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n

This happened at a facility that was regularly inspected, Crystal told Live Action News, and did things \u201cby the book,\u201d as far as she could tell. And yet, there is no way to sanitize what happens at an abortion facility, and no way to make abortion safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t really clean up what abortion does to people,\u201d said Crystal. \u201cYou can\u2019t clean up their lives. It tears them up. You can\u2019t really clean it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the gruesomeness of the first trimester abortions (which are explained in the video below by former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino):<\/p>\n