Conservative radio host Glenn Beck spent $600,000 this week to buy an archive of Roe v. documents. Wade was auctioned off by Linda Coffee, one of the last members of the team to argue a landmark abortion case before the Supreme Court in 1973.
coffee partner, Rebecca Hartt, has expressed hope that the collection will be preserved for historical records after the Supreme Court overturned Roe with the decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson’s last heat.
“[T]his collection should go to the next generation, because you will never have a case like this again, “Hart recently told D Magazine, a Dallas publication. or politics or whatever, because it needs to be challenged.”
Beck plans to debut the collection this summer at the “American Journey Experience,” a Texas museum opening in 2020 to house curios like Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wheelchair, letters from George Washington and other bits of American history.
It will be surrounded by “an added historical context,” Beck said, saying the Coffee documents will be “at home” alongside “German eugenics” artifacts. Beck suggests that the abortion rights movement has its roots in the racist eugenics movement because of the beliefs held by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who has long been denounced by the organization. The practice of abortion, of course, long predates the rise of eugenics.
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The radio host read from the rambling press release on Friday’s show.
“Coffee and many who were angry about overturning Roe in June were defeated twice this week,” Beck said. “In a move that could anger leftists, including terrorists, the Justice Department has proven unable or unwilling to hold accountable, nationally syndicated radio host and Blaze Media founder Glenn Beck acquired the collection, closing the deal on March 6.”
“Roe v. Wade is history, and now history is in the hands of pro-life conservatives,” he said. Beck notes that while the price is high, he and his wife believe that “the real price of the document is the lives of at least 60 million children.”
About 150 pages of documents are included in the archive, which Kopi and Hartt said they began putting together after Kopi nearly died of West Nile Virus in 2020.
Included are the letter Coffee wrote to convince attorney Sarah Weddington to join the case, the quill pen he received for arguing the case in the Supreme Court, and the original signed affidavit by Norma McCorvey, a woman named “Jane Roe” prevented by Texas law from obtaining an abortion. McCorvey died in 2017, and Weddington died in 2021.