{"id":250132,"date":"2021-07-30T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=250132"},"modified":"2021-07-29T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T06:22:17","slug":"charming-illegal-abortionist-sold-babies-black-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/charming-illegal-abortionist-sold-babies-black-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the ‘charming’ illegal abortionist who sold babies on the black market"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jane Blasio\u2019s recent book, “<\/span>Taken at Birth<\/span><\/a>,” recounts her <\/span>story<\/span><\/a> of being sold as a newborn in an off-the-books adoption transaction by a doctor who also acted as the region\u2019s not-so-secret illegal abortionist. She discovered the truth about her past after initiating a search for her birth parents, an effort which triggered a decades-long journey through half-told tales and seedy small-town secrets gathered in local libraries and door-to-door interviews. In the process, she found not only her genetic family, but hundreds of others who, like her, had been bought and sold out of the back door of a McCaysville, Georgia, clinic which served as the headquarters of Dr. Thomas Hicks\u2019 black-market enterprises during the 1950s and \u201860s.<\/span><\/p>\n

But who, exactly, was Dr. Hicks? What sort of man would presume the power to determine the course of so many lives while at the same time effecting so many deaths?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The dichotomy<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to those who knew him, he was \u201ca happy-go-lucky <\/span>man<\/span><\/a> of medium build, with reddish hair, a jaunty walk, and a fondness for money.\u201d One of Hicks\u2019s former neighbors <\/span>said<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0\u201cHe had the most charming personality.” Grace Postelle, a local McCaysville historian and another former neighbor, also <\/span>described<\/span><\/a> Hicks as a charmer. Doris Abernathy, Postelle\u2019s sister, characterized Hicks as follows: \u201cHe was a memorable person, a charming man. \u2026 He [was] a very complex person … a double person. Who of us is all good or all bad?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Hicks seems to have pushed this dichotomy to the limit, if the reputation he left behind is any indicator. William Wright grew up next door to Hicks\u2019s farm just a few miles outside of town. \u201cThere are no neutral feelings about him,\u201d <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> Wright, \u201cit’s either acid or alkaline.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to understand his polarizing effect. He was known for freely <\/span>sharing<\/span><\/a> fresh eggs and produce from his farm with neighbors; he\u2019d also earned the <\/span>nickname<\/span><\/a> \u201cBulova\u201d because that was the brand of the watch he\u2019d stolen off a dead man\u2019s wrist. He could be relied upon to give <\/span>free medicine<\/span><\/a> to the town\u2019s poorest residents, but he was also notorious for pulling an elaborate <\/span>con job<\/span><\/a> in order to sell a broken stove. This man, who kept two <\/span>mistresses<\/span><\/a> in a town that even today numbers a mere <\/span>1,200 people<\/span><\/a>, was also married to the Sunday school <\/span>teacher<\/span><\/a> at the First Baptist Church, where he donated a <\/span>Wurlitzer<\/span><\/a> organ and was a member of the Adams Bible Class.<\/span><\/p>\n

Playing God<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two doors down<\/span><\/a> from that very same church was a single-story blond brick building with green-and-white striped tin awnings; this is where Dr. Hicks played God over so many lives. The clinic was just a <\/span>hair\u2019s breadth<\/span><\/a> across the Tennessee\/Georgia border. This was strategic, as he was <\/span>persona non grata<\/span><\/i> in the Tennessee medical community. He\u2019d lost his <\/span>job<\/span><\/a> at the Tennessee Copper Company in 1932 for filing more claims than there were miners; then, in 1943, he lost his Tennessee medical license and was imprisoned for selling narcotics to an undercover FBI agent.<\/span><\/p>\n

But McCaysville essentially straddles the border, and in Georgia, Hicks was still licensed. Using his legitimate obstetrician practice as a front, he set up shop as an abortionist and black-market \u201cadoption agency.\u201d It didn\u2019t take long for word to get out. This was, at least in part, due to his own self-promotion tactics \u2014 in spite of the illegal nature of his \u201cservices,\u201d Hicks advertised them \u201cin <\/span>messages<\/span><\/a> scrawled in telephone booths and on highway overpasses,\u201d as well as in <\/span>bus stations<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And the customers rolled in \u2014 so many that an <\/span>airstrip<\/span><\/a> was built in nearby Ducktown to accommodate them. From there, they would be brought to the back door of Hicks\u2019s facility via <\/span>limousine<\/span><\/a>. Everyone in the surrounding region \u2014 including the social <\/span>elite<\/span><\/a> of Atlanta and Chattanooga \u2014 knew, but never discussed in tones above a whisper, that inside that building, Hicks would take a girl who was \u201cin trouble\u201d and, in his <\/span>words<\/span><\/a>, \u201cfix her right up\u201d in exchange for a $100 fee.<\/span><\/p>\n

His clinic was so infamous that it even <\/span>appeared<\/span><\/a> in the novel “<\/span>Peachtree Road”<\/span> by Anne Rivers Siddons, who said that although she never knew the doctor\u2019s name, his clinic was \u201ccommon knowledge\u201d among her 20-something aged Atlanta social circle. \u201cThese were girls from very substantial, fine, old Southern families,\u201d she said. \u201cThe way you got in touch was through your boyfriend. You’d be instructed to go early in the morning to a downtown street corner and a limousine would pick you up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The waiting list<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Hicks didn\u2019t kill <\/span>all<\/span><\/i> of the preborn children who crossed his threshold. Some he treated as merchandise, convincing the mothers to carry to term so that he could sell the babies to one of the names on his \u201cwaiting list.\u201d He would assure these women that no one would ever know they\u2019d had a baby, and would <\/span>house<\/span><\/a> them in the clinic, at his farm, in his apartments in the telephone company building, or in the New York Hotel in Copperhill, just across the Tennessee border.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One such woman was <\/span>Delores Hammond<\/span><\/a>. She was 21, unemployed, separated from her husband \u2014 who didn\u2019t want children \u2014 and she was scared. She went to Hicks for an abortion, but he persuaded her to give birth and let another couple adopt the child. She spent her pregnancy living in a small room behind the beauty parlor, where she also worked, which was operated by a woman named Vera \u2014 one of Hicks\u2019s mistresses. After giving birth, \u201cDelores heard her baby cry but never saw it. Vera told her it was a boy, and that he had been given to a couple who drove a big Cadillac.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hicks <\/span>lied<\/span><\/a> to some women who came to him for obstetric services, telling them their babies were stillborn, then selling the newborns to other families. <\/span>Thelma Tipton<\/span><\/a> was one such woman. \u201c[He said] she had a bad heart\u2026 and I believed it,\u201d Tipton said. Hicks even had her sign a phony death certificate. One week later, Hicks sold the child.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prospective buyers added their names to a waiting list. Appalachian History reports<\/a>, \u201cOnce a baby was available, Hicks wasted neither time nor words with his prospective buyers. \u2018You have 24 hours to come or I call the next person on the list,\u2019 he\u2019s reported to have <\/span>said<\/span> to more than one client.\u201d He also warned buyers that if they expressed a preference for a boy or a girl, they could forget about getting a baby. If they complied with these expectations, they were, eventually, supplied with newborns and <\/span>falsified<\/span><\/a> birth certificates naming them as the biological parents. In exchange, couples could expect to pay up to <\/span>$1000<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the birth mothers? Edna McPherson, who bought three babies from Hicks, <\/span>claimed<\/span><\/a> that he was \u201cunfailingly attentive\u201d to them, saying that sometimes he would buy the mothers a new dress. She claimed, \u201cThe woman who had my son got her hair fixed that day, and he paid for it.\u201d One cannot help but wonder if Vera was the stylist. When McPherson picked up her first baby, her husband caught a quick glimpse of a young, red-haired woman in a back room. She was crying. Before the couple left, they were passed a letter from the mother, expressing her wish that they would \u201ccare for, and clothe, and feed [the baby] in the manner in which I cannot.”<\/span><\/p>\n

A leading citizen<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is estimated that Hicks sold <\/span>200<\/span><\/a> babies. It is not known how many he killed. Eventually, Hicks was busted in the act of committing an abortion, but even then he managed to skirt legal <\/span>consequences<\/span><\/a>. The LA Times wrote:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hicks was indicted on Dec. 8, 1964, on charges of performing an illegal abortion and gave up his medical license that day. But the case never went to trial. A gentleman\u2019s agreement was reached that Hicks would not be called for trial unless he attempted to resume his medical practice.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Why did the town tolerate his activities for so long? \u201cEveryone <\/span>knew<\/span><\/a> that there was something dark and secretive going on,\u201d Greg Crawford, a local bank executive who grew up in McCaysville, recounted to the Times. But people seem not to have cared, at least not very much \u2014 they either made excuses for what he did, ignored it, or attempted to glorify it. <\/span><\/p>\n

Some<\/span><\/a> like to think of the payments made to Hicks for the babies not as profits, but as expenses covered.\u00a0<\/span>Hicks “was not making a lot of money from these babies,” Postelle <\/span>recalled<\/span><\/a>. “I don’t know of any that went for more than $1,000.” $1000 in 1960 is <\/span>equivalent<\/span><\/a> to approximately $9,200 today.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the day, it was apathy, a reluctance to rock the boat, and Hicks\u2019 veneer of respectability that provided the necessary social shield for his illegal enterprises. “He was a leading citizen, remember that,” Postelle <\/span>said<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marlene Hardiman\u2019s words, however, <\/span>cut<\/span><\/a> directly to the heart of the problem: \u201cHe didn’t perform any service that anyone didn’t request.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Heaven help us if that is to be the metric by which our society measures its moral decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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