It's better for me to speak from an NZ perspective, as I'm more aware of the climate here and a non-American perspective amongst the mainly American posters on this forum is needed.
In NZ,
our abortion rate is lower than the American rate - ~14.4 abortions per 1000 women to the ~16.9 over there. These aren't exact due to the likelihood of different statistic gathering methods, but we're still considerably high compared to many other Western countries (Germany has a 7.1 abortion rate, Scotland even higher with a rate of 11.2). Obtaining statistics for abortion rates in our neighbour Australia is nigh on impossible, but
this suggests that it could be as much as 19.1 for every 1000 women there. A quick little browse of
Guttmacher indicates that NZ is actually considerably low on the scale worldwide, which I found interesting. I would have thought that having
the highest levels of sexual violence in the OECD would have increased the rate, but that apparently is not true.
I think the key difference between abortion processes in New Zealand and America is that the process is heavily, if not entirely, subsidised by various forms of healthcare outside of one's own insurance. So the financial cost is more or less a non-factor here, which is very good. The actual process to getting an abortion is intentionally very drawn out, though. IIRC, you have to go to no less than three separate meetings in order to obtain an abortion - something that only hinders the system. You have to be referred by your doctor to a clinic or a Women's Health centre, who will then refer you to two 'creative consultants' to judge your health and decide whether your abortion can be 'certified'. The woman then has another meeting with either a previous consultant or an entirely new one later on, before they are finally booked with a hospital who is able to perform the procedure. While the doctors and patients regularly subvert the system and more often that not treat it merely as a formality, the lengthy process definitely weighs heavily on the mental health of a woman who just wants the pregnancy to be terminated.
Despite how drawn out the process is here, the availability of abortion care is only increasing,
unlike in America and the general accessibility of contraceptives is nothing to worry about. There are a few groups that wish to restrict abortion even further, but they have none of the ferocity and unity that seems to be present in American anti-abortion groups. I don't think the subject of abortion is the best way to gauge NZ's cultural relationship with sex. It's most certainly a relevant way, but I think focusing on the sexual assault rates is a more valid path.
Over all, NZ seems to be steadily declining in abortion rates and abortion as a whole seems to be at a healthy level. Obviously there are things that need to be changed or sped up, but we're at a healthy rate. It's actually quite disturbing just how different our statistics are when it comes to rape - one would think that a stable abortion rate due to accessibility, subsidised cost and safe-sex education would translate to a lower rape rate, but it's still absolutely shocking.