The Hicks Babies — The DNA Geek

In the mid-1940s, Dr. Thomas Jugarthy Hicks opened the Hicks Community Clinic in the small town of McCaysville, Georgia, mere steps from the Tennessee state line. Within a decade, he was not only performing illegal abortions but selling newborns on the black market. Some birth mothers knew they were placing a baby for adoption, some […]

via The Hicks Babies — The DNA Geek.

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At least 200 babies had their identities stolen. Now, they are using the power of DNA to reunite with their biological families. I am honored to be part of the behind-the-scenes team of passionate and compassionate people who helped some of them in their journeys.

You can follow their life-changing stories in a three-night series, Taken at Birth, airing October 9th-11th, 2019, on TLC.

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I missed this post by the DNA Geek until a few days ago.

I  wonder how many other clinics did the same thing that haven’t been uncovered yet in addition to those clinics that have been discovered.