The Hicks Clinic
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Episode description
This week, Hailee talks about the Hicks Clinic, a small, community clinic in McCaysville, GA where a doctor sold over 200 babies and performed illegal abortions, sometimes against the will of the mother, in the 50s and 60s.
Links:
A History Not Yet Laid to Rest - The Atlantic
How Many Babies Did Thomas Hicks Put Up for Adoption? - heavy.
‘Black market baby’ meets biological father in Gallatin - Gallatin News
Black Market Babies Reunited After More Than 50 Years - New York Post
ReproductiveRights.org - World Abortion Laws
What If Roe Fell? Interactive US Map from Reproductive Rights
Abortion Access - Planned Parenthood
Recommended Media
Television
- Taken at Birth - TLC docuseries, available on Discovery+
Books
Non-Fiction
- Taken at Birth by Jane Blasio
- American baby: a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption by Gabrielle Glaser
- Booth Girls: pregnancy, adoption, and the secrets we kept by Kim Heikkila
- The girls who went away: the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
- Before and After: the Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society by Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate
Fiction
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
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