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Coat Hanger Clinic

by Thomas Mercer

261 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-1296; ISBN 1-55395-580-3; US$23.00, C$31.65, EUR20.60, £14.30

Mother was a Madam and had several girls living and working out of our home. At the same time she was performing abortions at home, the year was 1967. When I realized what was going on I went to the Govenor's office and reported all that was being done.

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About the Book Coat Hanger Clinic is a true story of a young boy living with an abusive alcoholic Mother, how he thought the alcohol was bad until he got older and he realized his Mother was a local Madam and she was also performing abortions out of there home. This book will take you through middle Georgia and how my Mothers brothel was catering to the local Police agencies and local Politicians. After how I reached a certain age and realized what was going on at home, I made my mind up that no other child in the family would ever see what I had witnessed. Young women/girls leaving our house with blood soaked pants after just having an abortion performed, I simply could not take it any more and ran to the Governor of the state and asked for help. Believe me, the local Police didn*t like the idea I had been to the Governors office, they wanted to take care of me themselves. This was my fight to remove myself from the surroundings that I lived in. For those who are experiencing something similar you can fight your way out to. We can never give into the idea that we are stuck where we are at and can*t get out for a better life. I did, you can too.

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About the Author After finishing high school the author enlisted in the US Army and served most of his 2 year enlistment at Ft Dix New Jersey. After leaving the Army he enlisted in the US Navy where he served on Board the U.S.S. Simon Lake a Submarine Tender stationed in Rota Spain the remainder of his time was spent in Orlando Florida as a boot camp instructor. Once the Author left active duty he went to work for a local Sheriffs Department in Georgia while pursuing his college degree. Later he went back to work with the Department of Defense working a Robins Air force Base. The author has had a lot of health problems with numerous back operations and an Abdominal Aorta Aneurysm repaired. He is now medically retired and resides in Warner Robins, Georgia, with his bull dog Sadie, he has one Son that is in the US Navy and he is stationed aboard the air craft carrier U.S.S. George Washington, CVN 73 stationed in Norfolk Virginia, they try and see each other as much as possible. The Author spends much of his time helping other disabled veterans.

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Sample Excerpts

Ms Maggie was about 55 years old, maybe a little older, and had been in Macon most all her life, during this time period she had 2 or 3 different women living with her and was the queen Madam of Macon Georgia. I think it was during this time that Ms Maggie began teaching my Mother how to perform abortions. ***** Mother would take a regular 8 or 10 oz glass; she would fill the glass about half full of liquor with a glass of water on the side, when ever she wanted a drink, Mother would turn up the glass of liquor drinking it all, she then would take her a drink of water, but only a sip of the water. ***** Before Kay had a chance to pull away, she was down on the floor with Mother beating on her with all her might. I was standing at my door not knowing what to say or to do and just began to scream for Mother to stop, but she kept beating away like she was some kind of wild person. Ola's eyes were burning red, she looked as though she was some sort of devil, and I have never seen a person that could look like this. ***** After hitting the windows as many times as she could Kay finally gave out of energy and stopped to survey the damage, she then walked over to our car and put the tire tool back in the trunk. ***** What did he do Ola, drop and break a jar or something? I hadn't told Mr. H. this, so he guessed all on his own what happened and he was right on the money, about this time Mother screamed at him to shut up. ***** One day while playing ball at Jeff and Tim's house, a car pulled up at my house with two young girls getting out of the car. As the girls went to the door to knock, I was thinking they were 20 or 21 years old. They didn't stand there long before Mother opened the door for them to come in. Mother had gotten real drunk at the Club the night before and I think she thought I was at the movies, she just lost track. ***** Four more Officers ran by us in to the house with that giving them a total of seven, I thought they surely would be able to grab her and take her down to the floor. Boy did they have a surprise coming. They all began to circle her with each one looking at the other like, are you going first. All of a sudden most of them rushed at her, grabbing arms and legs. One Patrolmen got kicked dead square between the legs, he went down holding himself and was not good for anything for the rest of the night. They finally got her down on the floor with one officer each holding a limb. One Officer was standing right above her when her leg came free and kicked him right in the middle of the chest. That man went flying right toward Charlie and me. I thought he was going to come through the window out on the porch, but he hit the wall right beside the widow and nearly came through the wall. ***** For sure Mother had taken the role of Madam on, and she had several Women that worked part time and two or three that worked full time out of the house. The only thing I didn't know for sure was what was happening when the younger girls and some times older ones came to the house only to leave looking sick. I even thought maybe they were working girls and maybe they were running across some men that got their kicks by beating them up. Some men like doing that and women let them for the right amount of money. ***** After closing the door I then pulled the plug out of the wall and looked through the hole, I saw Mother standing in front of a woman who was lying on the bed with her legs spread. I only took a quick look then put the palm of my hand over the peephole as I had to think about what I was seeing. What I saw was a woman lying in such a position as to where her tail was barely on the bed and Mother standing right between her legs. This was very much like a woman lying down and giving birth to a baby. ***** After two weeks of thinking about going to the Governors office I set the date to go and that date would be the opening day of the Georgia State Fair, Monday October 17th. I decided that I would ride a bus to Atlanta and then I would take a taxi cab to the State Capitol, from there I would find the Governor's office and try and talk with him. ***** After sitting there for what seemed like an eternity there were 4 men that came walking in the small side room and they began to introduce their self and all of them were State Officials and some were law enforcement. They asked me what I would like to talk with them about. ***** I think everyone who gets locked up thinks about escaping and what they would do if they had the chance to leave, I did. Along the 8th or 9th day I started thinking seriously about a way to get away and how not to get caught if I got a chance to run, but they wouldn't let me out of my cell for anything. ***** The cat started slowing down with all the Patrol cars right behind us and as the cab slowed to 40 miles per hour I opened the door and jumped out. I am not sure what I was thinking, I may have thought I could hit the ground running but that was a mistake. I landed on the side of the road right on my tail bone and that did not feel good. I had maybe 20 seconds there on the side of the road rubbing my rear before everyone got out of their car and when I looked up Mr. Green was standing about 10 feet away from me. ***** When I took my first break from running I started to think the men would not give up and decided again to do a loop and that is when I ran into a big swamp. For the next several hours I waded in water that was ankle deep to water that was up to my shoulders and yes I was scared.

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