One night, Garner's birth control failed.
Female condoms break too, apparently.
The timing was lousy, and Garner thought she might end up pregnant. Garner, though, had heard about a service offered by Planned Parenthood of Orange and Durham. It's a selected dose of hormones that acts in a variety of ways to keep pregnancy from occurring. One version, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1998, is very similar to birth control pills. The other, approved a year later, contains mostly progestin.