How a Black Market Baby Found Home After Searching for 30 Years

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- One of the Hundreds Sold Out the Back Door of a Clinic, Jane Blasio Searches for Her Birth Mother, Finds "Home" and Forgiveness

From the 1940s through the 1960s, young pregnant women entered the front door of a clinic in a small North Georgia town. Sometimes their babies exited out the back, sold to northern couples who were desperate to hold a newborn in their arms. But these weren't adoptions--they were transactions with cash and no birth records. It is called human trafficking.

In her book, Taken at Birth: Stolen Babies, Hidden Lies, and my Journey to Finding Home, author and investigator, Jane Blasio, takes readers with her as she uncovers hundreds of babies that were sold to couples from the Hicks Clinic for cash. She takes you on her journey to find out who gave her up at birth, the deception and the small-town doctor who was responsible for the human trafficking scheme.

After the story broke in the paper in 1997, hundreds of people with the Hicks Clinic on their birth certificates came forward. Blasio has spent the past 20 years personally investigating her own origin, and helping other victims identify and reunite with their biological families. Along the way she became an expert in illicit adoptions, serving as an investigator and telling her story on every major news network. She was the investigative lead on the recent TLC docuseries, Taken at Birth.

"Jane takes you on the ride of her life, weaving, in emotional detail, the search for her birth family, the shocking circumstances surrounding her adoption, and the dark secrets as deep as the small southern town where it all began," said Lisa Joyner, host of the TLC docuseries Taken at Birth and adoptee and adoptive mom. "Through thoughtful investigative work, she effortlessly puts the reader front and center as this real-life story of deceit, trauma, and ultimately redemption unfolds. Regardless of our start in life, Jane reminds us, we all have the ability to find humanity if we know where to look."

Blasio also shares the impact the search has had on her life – from finding her roots, to forgiving the past, and being at peace with who she is.

In her search she says she found more than a birth mother.

"I found what was more important than a birth mother and more satisfying than all the answers I sought," writes Blasio. "I found where I belonged. It took the journey of searching, not the actual DNA, to find who I am."

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