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After fleeing the country for England, Sanger met notable [[Fabian Socialists]] who helped her refine her craft.  [[George Bernard Shaw]], [[H. G. Wells]], and [[Havelock Ellis]], among others.  Ellis in particular taught her to tone down her rhetoric.  Ellis guided her to use a more cautious and prudent propaganda,<ref name=training>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aNn_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue]</ref> taking advantage of the language of social sciences but with a sharper emotional guile.  She was also influenced by Neo-Malthusian writings.  While in Europe, she met [[Charles Vickery Drysdale]], who would go on to be a co-founder of the British Family Planning Association.  While at a Fabian Society meeting, Sanger also met Marie Stopes, who, like Drysdale, was an early pioneer in the field of birth control.  Stopes was also a Neo Malthusian.  Stopes sought out Sanger's advice for her book ''Married Love''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lZdECgAAQBAJ&pg=PT164 The Public Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes]</ref>  Stopes considered Sanger to be an inspiration, and included a bit about contraception in the book.

After fleeing the country for England, Sanger met notable [[Fabian Socialists]] who helped her refine her craft.  [[George Bernard Shaw]], [[H. G. Wells]], and [[Havelock Ellis]], among others.  Ellis in particular taught her to tone down her rhetoric.  Ellis guided her to use a more cautious and prudent propaganda,<ref name=training>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aNn_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue]</ref> taking advantage of the language of social sciences but with a sharper emotional guile.  She was also influenced by Neo-Malthusian writings.  While in Europe, she met [[Charles Vickery Drysdale]], who would go on to be a co-founder of the British Family Planning Association.  While at a Fabian Society meeting, Sanger also met Marie Stopes, who, like Drysdale, was an early pioneer in the field of birth control.  Stopes was also a Neo Malthusian.  Stopes sought out Sanger's advice for her book ''Married Love''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lZdECgAAQBAJ&pg=PT164 The Public Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes]</ref>  Stopes considered Sanger to be an inspiration, and included a bit about contraception in the book.

[[Image:Fabian tortoise.png|thumb|right|120px|Fabian turtle]]

[[Image:Fabian tortoise.png|thumb|right|120px|Fabian turtle]]

A trip to Holland led Sanger to conclude that the fight for birth control would need to take on greater medical tones, instead of being a "free speech fight".<ref name=training />  When she returned to America, she increasingly moved further away from her former radical friends, such as her former anarchist and communist friends in the IWW.  Sanger explained: "I am determined to bide my time, consolidate my forces, continue my studies, my lectures, my letters to the countless women who are writing me every week."<ref name=training />  Sanger had fully taken in the Fabian viewpoint of the [[Fabian Socialism#Inevitability_of_Gradualness|Inevitability of Gradualness]].  She eventually developed the viewpoint that [[Marxism]] was nothing more than a fad religion, and wholly rejected it.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MXFzAzFYpZAC&pg=PA59 Teaching America about Sex: Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr. Ruth]</ref>

A trip to Holland led Sanger to conclude that the fight for birth control would need to take on greater medical tones, instead of being a "free speech fight".<ref name=training />  When she returned to America, she increasingly moved further away from her former radical friends, such as her former anarchist and communist friends in the IWW.  Sanger explained: "I am determined to bide my time, consolidate my forces, continue my studies, my lectures, my letters to the countless women who are writing me every week."<ref name=training />  Sanger had fully taken in the Fabian viewpoint of the [[Fabian Socialism#Inevitability of Gradualness|Inevitability of Gradualness]].  She eventually developed the viewpoint that [[Marxism]] was nothing more than a fad religion, and wholly rejected it.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MXFzAzFYpZAC&pg=PA59 Teaching America about Sex: Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr. Ruth]</ref>

===Birth control===

===Birth control===

====Ideology====

====Ideology====

She believed that some people should be 100% barred from procreation of any kind, rather than limited encouragement that could produce the wrong kind of people, if, albeit, less of them.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aNn_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA409 The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue], See footnote 49</ref>  She said as much, in a video that surfaced in 2014 from a 1947 ''One Minute News'' interview she was in with John Parsons of British Pathé.  In the footage, she called for a 10 year ban on babies, insisting that it is both practical and humane.<ref>[http://liveactionnews.org/shocking-new-footage-found-of-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger-saying-no-more-babies/ Shocking new footage found of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger saying "no more babies"], [[Live Action]]</ref><ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1947/07/04/page/9/article/ban-on-babies-is-all-wet-cry-angry-britons Ban on Babies is All Wet, Cry Angry Britons], [[Chicago Tribune]]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChCjgYGTL4Y "No More Babies!" - Expert Calls For Ban on Childbirth (1947)], British Pathé</ref>  She again made similar comments in 1957 in an interview with Mike Wallace of ABC.  Wallace asked her if she believed in the existence of sin and her response was that "I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world" - and after a few second uncomfortable pause she said "that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically.  Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things, just marked when they’re born. That, to me, is the greatest sin that people can commit."<ref>[http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/zachary-leshin/planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger-greatest-sin-world-bringing Planned Parenthood Founder: 'Greatest Sin...is Bringing Children Into the World That Have Disease'], [[CNSNews.com]]</ref>

She believed that some people should be 100% barred from procreation of any kind, rather than limited encouragement that could produce the wrong kind of people, if, albeit, less of them.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aNn_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA409 The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue], See footnote 49</ref>  She said as much, in a video that surfaced in 2014 from a 1947 ''One Minute News'' interview she was in with John Parsons of British Pathé.  In the footage, she called for a 10-year ban on babies, insisting that it is both practical and humane.<ref>[http://liveactionnews.org/shocking-new-footage-found-of-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger-saying-no-more-babies/ Shocking new footage found of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger saying "no more babies"], [[Live Action]]</ref><ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1947/07/04/page/9/article/ban-on-babies-is-all-wet-cry-angry-britons Ban on Babies is All Wet, Cry Angry Britons], [[Chicago Tribune]]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChCjgYGTL4Y "No More Babies!" - Expert Calls For Ban on Childbirth (1947)], British Pathé</ref>  She again made similar comments in 1957 in an interview with Mike Wallace of ABC.  Wallace asked her if she believed in the existence of sin and her response was that "I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world" - and after a few second uncomfortable pause she said "that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically.  Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things, just marked when they’re born. That, to me, is the greatest sin that people can commit."<ref>[http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/zachary-leshin/planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger-greatest-sin-world-bringing Planned Parenthood Founder: 'Greatest Sin...is Bringing Children Into the World That Have Disease'], [[CNSNews.com]]</ref>

====The pill====

====The pill====

==Death and legacy==

==Death and legacy==

Sanger died in Tucson, Arizona on September 6, 1966,<ref name=obit /> of complications from congestive heart failure.<ref>[https://csivc.csi.cuny.edu/history/files/lavender/386/msanger.html Margaret Sanger 1879 - 1966], The founder of the birth-control movement in the United States</ref>  She was 86 years old.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0914.html Margaret Sanger Is Dead at 82; Led Campaign for Birth Control], [[The New York Times]]</ref>  She is buried in the prestigious Green-Wood Cemetery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tIXZvYmOBGIC&pg=PA79 The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries]</ref>

Sanger died in Tucson, Arizona on September 6, 1966,<ref name=obit /> of complications from congestive heart failure.<ref>[https://csivc.csi.cuny.edu/history/files/lavender/386/msanger.html Margaret Sanger 1879 - 1966], The founder of the birth-control movement in the United States</ref>  She was 86 years old.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0914.html Margaret Sanger Is Dead at 82; Led Campaign for Birth Control], [[The New York Times]]</ref>  She is buried in the prestigious Green-Wood Cemetery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tIXZvYmOBGIC&pg=PA79 The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries]</ref>

[[Image:Sanger SI.jpg|thumb|right|160px|]]

[[Image:Sanger SI.jpg|thumb|right|160px]]

[[Planned Parenthood]] annually gives awards to those who support them and the top award  they give is called ''The Margaret Sanger Award''.<ref>[http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/news/e-newsletter/AtTheFrontline-vol1no3/ne-AR-Sanger-Award.html Allan Rosenfield Receives the Reproductive Rights Movement's Highest Honor - Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award]</ref><ref>[http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/ppfa-margaret-sanger-award-winners.htm PPFA Margaret Sanger Award Winners]</ref> [[Alan Guttmacher]], who was a President of Planned Parenthood from 1962 to 1974 and who was also former Vice-President of the American Eugenics Society,<ref>[http://catholicwriter.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/what-is-roe-v-wade/ What is Roe v. Wade?]</ref><ref>[http://www.eugenics-watch.com/ Eugenics Watch]</ref> stated: "We are merely walking down the path that Ms. Sanger has carved out for us." <ref>[http://www.nationallifechain.org/PP.pdf What the Facts Reveal About Planned Parenthood]</ref><ref name="lifesite.net">[http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf The Inherent Racism of Population Control By Paul Jalsevac]</ref> Similarly, Faye Wattleton, who was the president of Planned Parenthood until 1992, stated that she was "proud" to be "walking in the footsteps" of Margaret Sanger.<ref name="lifesite.net"/>  In 1960, Sanger was nominated for a [[Nobel Peace Prize]].<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show.php?id=15785 Nomination Database]</ref>

[[Planned Parenthood]] annually gives awards to those who support them and the top award  they give is called ''The Margaret Sanger Award''.<ref>[http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/news/e-newsletter/AtTheFrontline-vol1no3/ne-AR-Sanger-Award.html Allan Rosenfield Receives the Reproductive Rights Movement's Highest Honor - Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award]</ref><ref>[http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/ppfa-margaret-sanger-award-winners.htm PPFA Margaret Sanger Award Winners]</ref> [[Alan Guttmacher]], who was a President of Planned Parenthood from 1962 to 1974 and who was also former Vice-President of the American Eugenics Society,<ref>[http://catholicwriter.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/what-is-roe-v-wade/ What is Roe v. Wade?]</ref><ref>[http://www.eugenics-watch.com/ Eugenics Watch]</ref> stated: "We are merely walking down the path that Ms. Sanger has carved out for us." <ref>[http://www.nationallifechain.org/PP.pdf What the Facts Reveal About Planned Parenthood]</ref><ref name="lifesite.net">[http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf The Inherent Racism of Population Control By Paul Jalsevac]</ref> Similarly, Faye Wattleton, who was the president of Planned Parenthood until 1992, stated that she was "proud" to be "walking in the footsteps" of Margaret Sanger.<ref name="lifesite.net"/>  In 1960, Sanger was nominated for a [[Nobel Peace Prize]].<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show.php?id=15785 Nomination Database]</ref>