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. 2021 May 31;9:644284. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.644284

Table 2.

Definitions of the non-medical categories and examples.

Categories Examples of tweets
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.