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A year after her divorce from William Sanger, Margaret remarried to Noah Slee.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tmHEm5ohoCUC&pg=PA1351 The Encyclopedia of New York State]</ref> Like her first husband Bill, J. Noah was also of an activist mindset, helping Margaret achieve her objectives. In 1928, Slee would smuggle diaphragms into New York through Canada<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vNkTEWUQXIcC&pg=PA255 Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America]</ref> in boxes labeled as 3-In-One Oil.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fe7NA-b_URIC&pg=PA254 Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private]</ref> He later became the first legal manufacturer of diaphragms in the United States.<ref>[https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/7513/9611/6635/Margaret_Sanger_Hero_1009.pdf Margaret Sanger - 20th Century Hero], p. 8, [[Planned Parenthood]]</ref>
A year after her divorce from William Sanger, Margaret remarried to Noah Slee.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tmHEm5ohoCUC&pg=PA1351 The Encyclopedia of New York State]</ref> Like her first husband Bill, J. Noah was also of an activist mindset, helping Margaret achieve her objectives. In 1928, Slee would smuggle diaphragms into New York through Canada<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vNkTEWUQXIcC&pg=PA255 Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America]</ref> in boxes labeled as 3-In-One Oil.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fe7NA-b_URIC&pg=PA254 Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private]</ref> He later became the first legal manufacturer of diaphragms in the United States.<ref>[https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/7513/9611/6635/Margaret_Sanger_Hero_1009.pdf Margaret Sanger - 20th Century Hero], p. 8, [[Planned Parenthood]]</ref>
==Influences==
==Early influence==
Her father Michael was an atheist and an outspoken Georgist activist. He had read [[Henry George]]'s work [[Progress and Poverty]] and supported the Single Tax movement.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u7pgCFIcH2cC&pg=PA18 Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion]</ref> The influence of George was so profound in the Higgins family that one of Sanger's brothers was named Henry George McGlynn Higgins. This is significant in not only the obvious ''Henry George'' naming, but the second middle name of "McGlynn" is a reference to [[Edward McGlynn]], a popular Catholic priest in New York who was excommunicated for his outspoken support of Georgist ideals.<ref>[http://www.masongaffney.org/publications/K18George_McGlynn_and_Leo_XIII.pdf Henry George Dr. Edward McGlynn & Pope Leo XIII]</ref>
Her father Michael was an atheist and an outspoken Georgist activist. He had read [[Henry George]]'s work [[Progress and Poverty]] and supported the Single Tax movement.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u7pgCFIcH2cC&pg=PA18 Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion]</ref> The influence of George was so profound in the Higgins family that one of Sanger's brothers was named Henry George McGlynn Higgins. This is significant in not only the obvious ''Henry George'' naming, but the second middle name of "McGlynn" is a reference to [[Edward McGlynn]], a popular Catholic priest in New York who was excommunicated for his outspoken support of Georgist ideals.<ref>[http://www.masongaffney.org/publications/K18George_McGlynn_and_Leo_XIII.pdf Henry George Dr. Edward McGlynn & Pope Leo XIII]</ref>
In 1914, Sanger proved herself to be a radical's radical. While associated with the Free Speech League, she launched the magazine ''The Woman Rebel'', which she new would provoke anti-obscenity laws such as the Comstock Law due to its (for the time) graphic sexual content.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2zswGBMFF8C&pg=PA548 Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology]</ref> Additionally, the magazine carried the slogan "''[[No gods, no masters]]''", which was a slight change from an IWW slogan: "''No God, No Master''."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rHNlZkqY6w4C&pg=PA447 Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues]</ref>
In 1914, Sanger proved herself to be a radical's radical. While associated with the Free Speech League, she launched the magazine ''The Woman Rebel'', which she new would provoke anti-obscenity laws such as the Comstock Law due to its (for the time) graphic sexual content.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2zswGBMFF8C&pg=PA548 Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology]</ref> Additionally, the magazine carried the slogan "''[[No gods, no masters]]''", which was a slight change from an IWW slogan: "''No God, No Master''."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rHNlZkqY6w4C&pg=PA447 Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues]</ref>
Seeking publicity for her cause, she sent seven issues of the ''Rebel'' through the mail before the Post Office finally responded. This led to the magazine being banned - an outcome she sought - and she was subsequently arrested.<ref name=harvard>[http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/sanger.html Margaret Sanger (1879–1966)]</ref> She eventually was let out on bail. She quickly fled the country and went to England, where she would meet notable [[Fabian Socialists]] who helped her refine her craft.
Seeking publicity for her cause, she sent seven issues of the ''Rebel'' through the mail before the Post Office finally responded. This led to the magazine being banned - an outcome she sought - and she was subsequently arrested.<ref name=harvard>[http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/sanger.html Margaret Sanger (1879–1966)]</ref> She eventually was let out on bail and quickly fled the country.
While Sanger was overseas in exile, supportive radicals Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman continued distributing her pamphlet ''Family Limitation'' while conducting a nationwide speaking tour.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pTgqEJzGqz0C&pg=PA28 Emma Goldman: Anarchist Woman]</ref>
While Sanger was overseas in exile, supportive radicals Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman continued distributing her pamphlet ''Family Limitation'' while conducting a nationwide speaking tour.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pTgqEJzGqz0C&pg=PA28 Emma Goldman: Anarchist Woman]</ref>
===Europe===
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.
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===