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Rachel Fabi Ph.D.
@fabioethics.bsky.social
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associate professor of bioethics • immigration, public health ethics, crosswords • she/her • http://abortionpuzzles.com • views my own
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3 months later and I am attempting to overcome my mental block around recording this lecture by adding a qualifier to the titled. Will it work? TBD!
a powerpoint slide with the title "Health Policy + Advocacy: How the Government (Usually) Works)." The slide background features a green plant sprout coming out of the soil.
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Before and after: enormous zucchini edition
Rachel Fabi in a kitchen wearing a Las Vegas Aces tank top and holding a 4 pound zucchini Two trays of muffins on a counter next to a bouquet of sunflowers and a bowl of zucchini noodles and white beans in a white sauce
September 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Pleased to announce, after a nine month gestation period, the arrival of my first “knitting during zoom meetings” cardigan
A blue long-sleeved hand-knit cardigan with a wooden shawl pin closure hangs on a hanger in front of a white door
September 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Headed to NYC for Lollapuzzoola — will this be the year I finally remember how to solve on paper?? TIME WILL TELL

(…the odds are not good tho)

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A New Yorker crossword puzzle on a clipboard sits on a train tray table with a view of greenery outside the train window. I’m holding a pencil in my right hand above the puzzle.
August 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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New paper out in Milbank Quarterly on State Public Coverage of Pregnant Undocumented Immigrants and Prenatal Insurance Uptake: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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The Milbank Quarterly Original Research State Public Coverage of Pregnant Undocumented Immigrants and Prenatal Insurance Uptake MEGHAN BELLEROSE, LINQING ZHENG, ARIELLE DESIR, RACHEL E. FABI, LAURA R. WHERRY, MARIA W. STEENLAND Policy Points - Twenty-four states and the District of Columbia offer public insurance to pregnant undocumented immigrants who are income eligible for Medicaid. - We found that residing in a state with public coverage of pregnant undocumented immigrants was associated with increased prenatal Medicaid coverage among immigrants and was not associated with corresponding reductions in private or other insurance coverage. - Offering state public insurance to pregnant undocumented immigrants could increase immigrants’ access to insurance coverage and recommended care during pregnancy.
July 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Here’s a park I walked in this morning, in case you (like me) needed to see something beautiful today
A small stream lined by tall rushes winds through a vibrant green field, with some bushes and trees in the foreground and background. There’s not a cloud in the sky.
July 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Please join us for the upcoming ASBH webinar "When Immigration Enforcement Comes to Our Hospitals and Schools: Considerations for Ethics and Policy" on June 24 at 1pm ET/12pm CT.

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Speakers: Matthew Lopas, JD; Thalia Porteny, PhD MSc; and Altaf Saadi, MD, with moderation by ASBH Secretary Rachel Fabi, PhD HEC-C
June 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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apropos of nothing
screenshot from the text of "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens: 'Well, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'I suppose they are getting the HABEAS-CORPUS ready?' 'Yes,' said Sam, 'and I vish they'd bring out the have-his- carcase. It's wery unpleasant keepin' us vaitin' here. I'd ha' got half a dozen have-his-carcases ready, pack'd up and all, by this time.' What sort of cumbrous and unmanageable machine, Sam Weller imagined a habeas-corpus to be, does not appear; for Perker, at that moment, walked up and took Mr. Pickwick away.
May 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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bliss
A brown dog on a hammock between two legs in the background and an out of focus open book in the foreground
May 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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So tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell anyone who will listen (and especially tell a journalist!)

You can help people get necessary abortion care AND solve fantastic crossword puzzles by donating here: fund.nnaf.org/campaign/the...

8/9
These Puzzles Fund Abortion 5 round logo, with the number 5 created from crossword blocks, in front of a purple crossword background
May 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I spoke this week with Upstate's Informed Patient podcast about healthcare institutions' duty to plan, safeguard, care for their immigrant patients:
www.upstate.edu/informed/202...
In the foreground is text reading Caring for Immigrant Patients The Informed Patient Podcast with guest Rachel Fabi, PhD Upstate Medical University There is a picture of Rachel Fabi, a white woman with glasses, next to her name, and a photo of a doctor and a young girl smiling at each other in the background.
May 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Just openly sobbing over the text of the latest @avcx.bsky.social email from @burrata.bsky.social

AVCX is good people and good puzzles and everyone should subscribe and support them ❤️
We hope you're enjoying yourself and finding peace in this awful, awful time in the history of humanity and its habitable existence on planet Earth. Human beings are adaptable and it's OK to hug and laugh with your friends, your family, your loved ones, and to do so without a shred of regret. Absolutely nothing wrong or diverting about any of that. We can and must stay well, both because we -- who bear burdens -- deserve it, and because it steels us for the fights that decent people sometimes have to join.
April 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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It's so weird, I was mysteriously added to this top secret group chat and someone dropped a link to a site where you can donate money to abortion funds in exchange for crossword puzzles. Has this happened to anyone else??

fund.nnaf.org/campaign/the...

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round "these puzzles fund abortion 5" logo in front of a purple crossword pattern
March 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Altho the race was canceled, I did get to ride 50 miles with my All Bodies On Bikes teammates along a safe alternate route suggested by the race organizers. It was such a beautiful experience 💕

All Bodies on Bikes is an incredible organization for inclusivity in cycling: www.allbodiesonbikes.com
Six people with bikes stand in front of an arch that says THE MID SOUTH that is being supported against the wind by a telehandler. The third person from the left is wearing a pink ALL BODIES ON BIKES jersey. The person on the far right is Rachel Fabi (this poster)
March 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Normally when I bike long distances I raise money for suicide prevention along the way. But since I cannot possibly run two fundraisers at once, you can show your support for my 107 mile (!!) race on Saturday by donating through These Puzzles Fund Abortion, if you feel so moved!

fund.nnaf.org/tpfa
MidSouth in a white psychedelic font against a black background In orange, the 03/13-16/2025 appears above MidSouth The words Stillwater and Oklahoma appear inside orange circles beneath MidSouth In the middle and slightly in front of MidSouth, a green bird is perched on a yellow, green, blue, and orange pile of squiggles with a blue and orange snake in its mouth Beneath the bird logo it says "A weekend endurance festival celebrating hard challenges and the beauty of Oklahoma dirt roads"
March 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Folks who are pro-abortion AND pro-crossword puzzle may be interested in These Puzzles Fund Abortion, a fundraiser that is raising money for five abortion funds right now and which is unapologetic about its name: fund.nnaf.org/campaign/the...

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TPFA FAQs: Q: why can’t you just be “puzzles for choice”? A: we’ve been asked many times why we didn’t change the name of our puzzle pack to something more neutral, something less “in your face,” something more palatable to people who want to support “women’s health” or “the right to choose” but who might be uncomfortable with the language of funding abortion. We have stood by our decision to be explicit about the purpose of this project right in the name — These Puzzles Fund Abortion — because we believe that abortion should not be stigmatized or sanitized with language that obscures. Abortion is healthcare, and your donation will help provide access to that healthcare.”
March 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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If you need something else to do tonight, you could always donate to support abortion funds and get some crossword puzzles to solve instead of watching whatever is happening on tv 😇

So close to $10,000!

fund.nnaf.org/campaign/the...
These puzzles fund abortion fundraiser thermometer showing $9,972 raised out of a $50k goal
March 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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see you in stillwater 🙌
Rachel Fabi in an all bodies on bikes jersey and pretty ok at bikes at in front of a red bike on an indoor training and a screen showing zwift software. The text over the photo says final mid south race rehearsal, virtual ride 87.9 mi, elev gain 2,913 fr, time 5h59m
February 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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About halfway through! Way behind on carbs though — it’s so hard to keep eating gels etc when you aren’t hungry 😭
Rachel Fabi, sweaty and on an indoor bike, wearing an All Bodies On Bikes pink and purple jersey and a cycling cap that says PRETTY OK AT BIKES 😐
February 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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About to spend six hours on my indoor training to prepare for a 107 mile gravel race in March, thoughts and prayers appreciated
A tabled covered in cycling gear including an All Bodies On Bikes Jersey and socks that say “PUSH WATTS HATE FASCISM” and lots of gels and water bottles
February 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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We are in the final stretch of editing These Puzzles Fund Abortion 5! I am so proud of the puzzles we've pulled together — although times are dark, our puzzles highlight joy, community, and solidarity 💕✨

You can learn more and donate for presale here:
fund.nnaf.org/tpfa
The logo of These Puzzles Fund Abortion 5, which is a round logo with a 5 drawn in purple squares on a 7x7 crossword grid, with the words "these puzzles fund abortion" and two stylized stars going around the grid, sits in front of a background crossword grid in two shades of purple
February 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Studying my notes from the time the bards Kendrick and Drake appeared in a session of my current D&D campaign

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Session 41: D.O.G. Is Not That Kind of Drake Date: May 8, 2024 In a flashback at the beginning of the episode, Rigel regales the party with the deep lore of the Kendrick/Drake Beef. Ages ago, two bards (Drake and Kendrick) apparently waged war over ... unclear reasons, and through the exchange of barbed words and vicious mockery, the two battled in a very public way. Rigel recounted the entire saga, and suggested that Kendrick had ultimately slain Drake, possibly for good, by invoking the shame of his family and the betrayal of his adventuring party.
February 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Apparently there is a football game today but since I’ve never heard of either of the teams* I made a generic football sourdough loaf

*jk don’t @ me
A round loaf of bread with a football shape scored into the top on a cooling rack
February 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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cool cool cool cool cool
a frowning page icon above the words "This site can't be reached, check if there is a typo in www.hhs.gov. dns_probe_finished_nxdomain"
February 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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At the Westport Crossword Tournament in my These Puzzles Fund Abortion sweatshirt ✨

There’s some VERY EXCITING news from TPFA coming this weekend 👀👀

@tpfa.bsky.social #tpfa5
A large library atrium with people solving crossword puzzles at long tables. The timer on a colorful screen behind the solvers reads 12:26 in huge numbers
February 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM