There are many different types of contraceptives available.
Reversible methods provide temporary protection from pregnancy.
By 1995, it was being used by more than 100,000 women. In that same year, the Food and Drug Administration found some problems at the production facility for the sponge. Although there were wasn t anything wrong with the sponge itself, Whitehall-Robins decided it was too costly to correct the manufacturing problems and discontinued the product. Recently, the Today Sponge was acquired by another company, Allendale Pharmaceuticals, which plans to put it back on the market. The device is made of a soft polyurethane foam shaped like a small donut and coated with the spermicide, nonoxynol-9.