Andrew Welden (right) and his once-pregnant girlfriend.
28 year-old John Andrew Welden was indicted on one count first degree murder Tuesday in Florida after allegedly tricking his girlfriend into aborting their child. Tampa Bay Times reports that the crime took place in March after an ultrasound performed by the accused’s father, Dr. Stephen Ward Welden, confirmed the pregnancy.
John Welden then forged his father’s signature on a prescription for Cytotec, an FDA approved drug known to cause uterine contractions resulting in spontaneous miscarriage, and relabeled the bottle as “Amoxicillin.” Welden’s girlfriend, 26-year-old Remee Lee, took the medication thinking it was an antibiotic meant to cure a supposed bacterial infection in her blood. Shortly after she began taking the pills, READ MORE »
With 19% prevalence for depression, you would think that our lives would be congruous to those long-faced children on the Feed The Children commercials, but life has never been easier for us. Technology is at our fingertips and hospitals are armed with every type of medical marvel we can think of (and even a few we thought could never exist outside of a sci-fi film). Studies are showing that the answer to happiness may lie in each of us. Do we set ourselves up for failure with how we think and behave? Is happiness simply a point of mind over matter?