Doctor’s Son Arrested For Tricking Girlfriend Into Abortion Pill

A 28-year-old Tampa, Florida man is facing life in jail after he tricked his girlfriend into taking an abortion drug after she refused to get an abortion.

John Andrew Welden forged the signature of his father, Dr. Stephen Ward Welden, on a prescription for Cytotec, a drug that will induce an abortion. He placed the pills in a bottle labeled “amoxicillin” and told his girlfriend that his father wanted her on antibiotics according to a federal prosecutor. Continue reading