I don't know if that's true. In the mid-late 90s German abortion laws were largely liberalized.
I have a friend in the right-to-life movement in Germany. According to her, Germany's abortion rate is 1 in 10 (which they consider horrible) whereas America's rate is somewhere between 1 in 3 and 1 in 4....
I think the Roman Catholic half of Germany, mostly in the West, has kept the laws more restricted than in the USA.