These are such hard cases. In the end, something like "religion" is the only counterbalance to the power of the state. Religious liberty protects this counterbalance, this freedom from absolute state power and absolute majority rule. Abortion is clearly a religious issue for many people, and forcing them to pay for abortions is, for them, a genuine loss of religious liberty. But, in the end, it is probably more society and less the state that determines these issues. As religion in general and Christianity in particular declines in the US, the infringements on religious liberty will seem more and more easy to justify, the claims for religious freedom less and less persuasive. Both state and society will be further integrated into a larger order that will be materialist, secularist, consumerist, efficient, data and algorithm-driven, and generally neoliberal in its values. Abortion will not be an issue.