{"id":176679,"date":"2017-12-26T12:55:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T17:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=176679"},"modified":"2017-12-26T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T18:25:37","slug":"planned-parenthood-manager-grief-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-manager-grief-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Planned Parenthood manager speaks: We placed grief journals in the recovery room"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crystal Eldridge, former Planned Parenthood manager<\/p><\/div>\n

This is part three of a three-part series, taken from an\u00a0exclusive Live Action News interview with a former Planned Parenthood manager. Read parts one<\/a> and two<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Crystal Eldridge, a former Planned Parenthood<\/a> health center manager in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was so against what she and others were doing at Planned Parenthood that she would encourage other employees to leave \u2014 and even tried to save babies from abortion<\/a>. Crystal had nightmares about the POC room — where babies were pieced back together after abortion to make sure all their body parts were accounted for — and witnessed how women’s abortions did not go as smoothly as the public is led to believe.<\/p>\n

She told Live Action News that Abby Johnson\u2019s abortion worker ministry, And Then There Were None<\/a>, \u201cused to send a lot of postcards\u201d but the employees there \u201cwere always told to tear them up and throw them away.\u201d Crystal didn\u2019t. \u201cI always kept them in my top drawer, and I told my employees if you ever want to leave, and don\u2019t know how, go in my top drawer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crystal\u2019s pro-life views were known to the other Planned Parenthood employees. \u201cEverybody there that I worked with knew my stance on abortion. They knew I was against it. They knew I would talk to the girls in private, and try to push for adoption, and try to save babies \u2014 and I did save some.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI could\u2019ve lost my job for that [encouraging women to choose life],\u201d Crystal told Live Action News. \u201cI always knew life was more important than money. I was always willing to lose my job to save a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sales pitch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crystal knew that Planned Parenthood was presenting abortion as if it was the easy option — the preferred<\/em> option. She told Live Action News that while \u201cthere was a consent room, where you have to, by law, tell them their choices: you can keep the baby, carry to term, you can do adoption, or abortion,\u201d education wasn\u2019t really part of what they did there. Instead of actually educating the women on all of their options, the speech they got was more akin to, \u201cYou know your choices, right? You can keep it, abort it, or put it up for adoption,\u201d as opposed to, \u201cWe can offer you pamphlets to adoption facilities or we can get you in contact with folks who can help you through your pregnancy.\u201d That was the extent of their options counseling, Crystal said, \u201cAnd I have a huge problem with that.\u201d<\/p>\n