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Surely not -- almost everyone (and the law in all countries as far as I am aware) agrees that there is some time after which is no longer permissible to have an abortion (except in circumstances where there mother's life is in danger, etc), and that that time is earlier than birth.
That merely means that it will be hard to convince people to adopt that line, not that it isn't a Schelling point, nor that it is not a conservative one with respect to the issues of harm to a person.
In any case, here are two countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada
In Canada there are no legal restrictions at all. The laws were struck down by their Supreme Court, and no others laws have been passed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Australia
In Australia it is regulated by state, not nationally. In the ACT, there are no restrictions whatever. They repealed the previous abortion code entirely.
Neither of these means it is trivial to get a late term abortion, of course. Not criminalized is not the same thing as unregulated as a medical procedure.