Table 2.
Definitions of the non-medical categories and examples.
Categories | Examples of tweets |
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Legal issues | • More than 1,000 suits against NuvaRing to go to trial this fall • Merck to pay $100 million in NuvaRing settlement • Inmates in one Tennessee county can reduce jail time with birth control—implant for females and vasectomy for males • Virginia man agrees to vasectomy to reduce prison sentence • Pregnant women sue pharmaceutical companies over mislabeled birth control pills |
Economic aspects | • Teva to sell contraceptive brand ParaGard in $1.1 billion deal • Pfizer recalls a million packets of birth control pills |
Other | • Ron Paul: “The [birth control] pills can't be blamed for the immorality of our society” • Startups that deliver birth control pills, other meds @XXX @XXX via @XXX |
Usernames and personal names were replaced by XXX.