Abort Who?

A person I sort of thought of as a friend admitted
he'd split with his girl, well sort of-she was pregnant
and they argued by mobile phone at the meals
we shared with him when he called round to see us.
As he raised his voice I wondered whether technology
was more for defending arguments than furthering relationships.
The lady knew not who was the father, and was refusing
to see either man. My friend's companionship with us
wore thin, he wanted 'his girl', she is forty, to abort
the child, and for his infantalising normality to return.
No matter that he had already disowned three children.
Thinking about them both, I saw that it would be less jealous
and more intelligent if she fore-swore the company
of men for good-aborting them instead of the child.
If nothing else it would be a more accurate means
of  birth control. She alone should keep the child
as a shield against having to recieve forced company
and bad advice. Through maturity and quietude
she might retrieve a virtue for single parenthood.