Just as production was wrapping up in June 1978, Sondra Locke learned that she was pregnant. Locke, then 34, had had her IUD removed some years prior because Clint Eastwood complained it was uncomfortable for him, and the couple had been using the rhythm method. Sondra reluctantly agreed to an abortion, "a hard and painful decision" in her words. When she became pregnant again in 1979, Clint voiced concerns for her health and suggested sterilization. "I think it would be the best thing for our life together. Aren't I enough for you?" Locke's autobiography quotes Eastwood as saying. Then she began to cry. "Funny how it never even crossed my mind to ask HIM to have surgery." She underwent a second abortion and subsequent tubal ligation at UCLA Medical Center. To console her, Eastwood sold their Sherman Oaks bungalow and bought a dream house in Bel-Air. "This home would be my baby," wrote Locke. Though they remained together another decade (towards the end of which Clint sired someone else's two children, unbeknownst to Sondra), from her perspective their relationship never fully recovered from the abortions.

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