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