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  Sophie's choice
Sophie Brassard, a 37-year-old single mother in Canada, is scheduled to fight in a Montreal court today for the custody of her two children, 4 and 8.
Brassard and her supporters point to the results of a recent South African study, published in the Lancet in August, which concluded that HIV was not necessarily passed through breast milk.
Brassard says she was aware of all the arguments when she left the country.
www.healtoronto.com /brassard_salon.html   (2360 words)

  
 David Crowe: Sophie's Medical Coercion
Sophie’s troubles first began when her sister (irony of ironies, a pharmacologist with a large US-based biotech company) reported her to authorities during the birth of her first son.
Sophie was found to be HIV-positive in 1986, and first encountered alternative views on HIV/AIDS and AIDS drugs in 1987 after reading an Italian book that blamed much of the disease on illicit and pharmaceutical drugs, along with the fear that comes to most people with an HIV diagnosis.
Sophie was legally barred from having any influence on her child’s health care or diet, and was not allowed to see them without supervision.
davidcrowe.ca /SciHealthEnv/sophie.html   (1448 words)

  
 Mother fights to block son's HIV drug therapy
Brassard, who is also HIV-positive, said in an interview yesterday that she believes the drug cocktail is dangerous and still experimental.
Brassard should have the right to participate in taking informed medical decisions for her children, who are not in imminent harm," Ms.
Brassard said her opposition to the anti-HIV drugs is based on her belief that the body must cure itself without drugs.
www.healtoronto.com /brassard1.html   (568 words)

  
 Sophie's choice - Salon
Brassard, who found out she was HIV positive in 1989, says that she was both healthy and well-informed when she became pregnant in 1992.
Brassard was in the middle of labor when five men -- a social worker, a Youth Protective Services administrator, a doctor and two police -- entered her apartment and forced her to go to the hospital.
When Brassards first child began losing weight at 18 months, her social worker insisted that she take him to a doctor who would prescribe treatment with AZT.
dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/1999/12/08/brassard/index.html?pn=2   (1057 words)

  
 HIV & AIDS - Flight from the AIDS Police
Brassard's parents to administer anti-viral AIDS "cocktails" to their grandchildren, Xavier, 3, and Ismael, 8, or he'd place them in foster care.
Brassard's decision to refuse AIDS cocktails for her children did not make her an unfit mother, and that dissenting medical opinions concerning HIV treatments were appropriate to consider.
Brassard says social workers indicated to her their intent to continue drug therapy and maintain control over the boys regardless.
www.virusmyth.net /aids/news/mkbrassard.htm   (810 words)

  
 Untitled Document
We do believe that Sophie was driven by the desire to be reunited with her children and that her concern for their health was the catalyst for her decision to regain control of their well being.
What is also distressing is that had Sophie not reacted to this situation this way, there is a good chance we would have legally reunited her with her children and set a precedence for all HIV+ people.
Again, we are not condoning Sophie's choice of action, and we wish she had contacted us to explore her options, however, Sophie's innate maternal instinct obviously took precedence over her ability to see a course of action that would have long term benefits for everyone involved.
aidsmyth.addr.com /news/000530aidspolice.htm   (1671 words)

  
 We need the truth on HIV (sic)
Brassard cited arguments that HIV is not the cause of AIDS and that the drugs used to treat AIDS are toxic.
Brassard are in denial, because they are riddled with guilt, having failed to heed doctors' advice on this subject.
Brassard refused to take antiviral drugs during her pregnancy because she had read a newspaper article that gave credence to the notion that HIV doesn't cause AIDS.
www.sidasante.com /temoigna/jdwain.htm   (744 words)

  
 bfi | Sight & Sound | Nô (1998)
Imagining Michel is having an affair, Sophie rebuffs her besotted co-star François-Xavier but accepts a dinner invitation from Canadian cultural attaché Walter and his wife Patricia.
Sophie learns about the imposition of martial law at home, abandons her plan to abort the baby and returns to the devastated apartment where she is arrested and immediately miscarries.
This is particularly the case in the shock cut from actor François-Xavier, sitting in a photo booth and lashing out at the glass in front of the lens, to Michel's bomb shattering the window of his apartment.
www.bfi.org.uk /sightandsound/review/80   (1088 words)

  
 FILM REVIEW; A Farcical 'No' (Meaning No, and, Yes, a Pun on Noh) - New York Times
Although she has a boyfriend, Michel (Alexis Martin), back home, Sophie is not sure who the father is, and the couple are on the verge of separating over the issue of raising a family.
The ineptly performed Feydeau play in which Sophie performs becomes a metaphor for the behavior of all the major characters.
Sophie allows herself to be taken out for dinner by Walter (Richard Frechette), a philandering diplomat, and his mean, bossy wife, Patricia (Marie Gignac).
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E3D9123AF930A15757C0A96F958260   (629 words)

  
 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She is particularly close to her daughter-in-law, Sophie, The Countess of Wessex.
She is known to have disapproved of Prince Charles's long-standing relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles, but with their recent marriage, has come to accept it.
In 1995, during a separatist referendum campaign, she was tricked into speaking, in both French and English, for fourteen minutes with 29-year-old Pierre Brassard, a DJ for Radio CKOI-FM Montreal, pretending to be Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom   (8054 words)

  
 Recore Family Tree: Index
Beaudin, Sophie (marriage to Noe "Noah" Ricard Dit Recore) (i53)
Brassard, Antoine (marriage to Francoise Mery) (i224), b.1609-d.1669
Brassard, Dorothee (marriage to Pierre Richer-Lafleche) (i187), b.1656-d.1738
www.sue-bernard.com /american_family_histories/recore/nindex.htm   (1255 words)

  
 SBS master
A Canadian court must decide whether Sophie Brassard must give her children a drug cocktail or lose them to a foster home.
Sophie's choice A Canadian court will decide whether Sophie Brassard must give her children a drug cocktail or lose them to a foster home.
By Alyson Mead Sophie Brassard, a 37-year-old single mother in Canada, is scheduled to fight in a Montreal court today for the custody of her two children, 4 and 8.
www.whale.to /m/sbs11.html   (7912 words)

  
 DBLP: Gilles Brassard
Gilles Brassard, Claude Crépeau, Moti Yung: Everything in NP can be Argued in Perfect Zero-Knowledge in a Bounded Number of Rounds.
Gilles Brassard: A Time-Luck Tradeoff in Relativized Cryptography.
Gilles Brassard: A Time-Luck Tradeoff in Cryptography FOCS 1980: 380-386
informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Brassard:Gilles.html   (807 words)

  
 DBLP: Gilles Brassard
Gilles Brassard, Anne Broadbent, Alain Tapp: Multi-party Pseudo-Telepathy.
Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Claude Crépeau, Marie-Hélène Skubiszewska: Practical Quantum Oblivious Transfer.
Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Seth Breidbard, Stephen Wiesner: Quantum Cryptography, or Unforgeable Subway Tokens.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Brassard:Gilles.html   (807 words)

  
 DBLP: Sophie Laplante
Sophie Laplante, Troy Lee, Mario Szegedy: The Quantum Adversary Method and Classical Formula Size Lower Bounds.
Sophie Laplante, Frédéric Magniez: Lower Bounds for Randomized and Quantum Query Complexity Using Kolmogorov Arguments.
Sophie Laplante, Richard Lassaigne, Frédéric Magniez, Sylvain Peyronnet, Michel de Rougemont: Probabilistic abstraction for model checking: An approach based on property testing.
sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /dblp/db/indices/a-tree/l/Laplante:Sophie.html   (229 words)

  
 David Crowe: Rob Johnston Obituary
Being HIV-positive and opposed to medication made her a pariah with many other groups that should have come to her assistance, but failed to do so.
Rob and Sophie were about as unlike as any two people could be.
Sophie was highly emotional, often alternating between deep despair and vitriolic outbursts against the people harassing her.
davidcrowe.ca /SciHealthEnv/20030410-RobJohnston.html   (2520 words)

  
 SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS
Canadian mother Sophie Brassard has tested positive on an HIV test.
Her children have been taken away by the authorities, and Sophie's parents are now legally bound to administer the drug.
She fled the country with her partner and baby, and they are now fugitives.
www.healtoronto.com /meditel_mbeki.html   (3063 words)

  
 The Body: Informed Consent?
The study was presented to a somewhat dumbfounded audience at the International AIDS Conference in Durban a few weeks ago.
In Montreal, Sophie Brassard took her children and fled the country.
Although some of us are in contact with her, nobody has any idea where in the world she is. If she returns, she will be arrested for kidnapping.
www.thebody.com /wa/summer00/consent.html   (1589 words)

  
 The Memory Hole: HIV=AIDS Controversy
The life of a 4-year old child, who had tested positive for HIV and had faced the prospect of enforced treatments, was spared by a Maine judge in a decision which, among other things, underscored the fact that AIDS therapies are tantamount to poisoning by prescription.
Journalist, Marnie Ko, gives an accounting of Sophie Brassard's ordeal with AIDS police over the fate of her children under court order to get with the pogrom and take their AIDS cocktails.
Dr. Wainberg indicates he's unsure whether or not the profits he receives from one of the three drugs used in the AIDS cocktail forceably administered to the Brassard children would be enough for him to retire on at this time.
tmh.floonet.net /hivcont2.html   (2412 words)

  
 Court-ordered drug treatment, by Marnie Ko
David Crowe, a Calgary businessman and president of the Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society, came to Ms.
Wainberg, who has likened his intellectual opponents to Holocaust-deniers, had earlier singled out Sophie Brassard, the HIV-positive Montreal mother whose sons were seized by social workers after she refused to give them anti-AIDS drugs.
Wainberg is heavily invested in the debate, both in terms of his personal credibility and financially.
www.aras.ab.ca /MarnieKo/aidspolice.html   (1070 words)

  
 Movie Info for No on MSN Movies
In October 1970, Montreal actress Sophie (Anne-Marie Cadieux) appears in a Feydeau farce at the Osaka World's Fair.
Back in Montreal, her boyfriend Michel (Alexis Martin) watches the October Crisis on TV and sees Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau declare the War Measures Act.
However, Michel is immersed in politics, while Sophie rejects the amorous advances of her co-star (Eric Bernier), becomes friendly with a blind translator, and passes an evening with frivolous Canadian embassy official Walter (Richard Frechette) and his wife Patricia (Marie Gignac).
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=67626   (161 words)

  
 Computationally convincing proofs of knowledge (Extended Abstract) (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gilles Brassard, Claude Crépeau, Sophie Laplante, Christian Léger
0.3: Quantum Amplitude Amplification and Estimation - Brassard, Høyer, Mosca,..
190 Minimum disclosure proofs of knowledge (context) - Brassard, Chaum et al.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /40931.html   (318 words)

  
 Things you should know about Aids and retroviral Drugs
Judge Clapp's Decision on Nikolas Emerson The life of a 4-year old child, who had tested positive for HIV and had faced the prospect of enforced treatments, was spared by a Maine judge in a decision which, among other things, underscored the fact that AIDS therapies are tantamount to poisoning by prescription.
Flight from the AIDS Police Journalist, Marnie Ko, gives an accounting of Sophie Brassard's ordeal with AIDS police over the fate of her children under court order to get with the pogrom and take their AIDS cocktails.
Wainberg indicates he's unsure whether or not the profits he receives from one of the three drugs used in the AIDS cocktail forceably administered to the Brassard children would be enough for him to retire on at this time.
www.natural-remedies-hiv-aids.com /links.htm   (1383 words)

  
 National Post Online - news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Some HIV-positive mothers have chosen to go to court to prevent doctors from giving their children the cocktail of drugs that keep the virus in check.
In Montreal, 37-year-old Sophie Brassard is battling youth-protection authorities to regain custody of her two children, one of whom is a seven-year-old who doctors want to treat for HIV.
In England, a court is being asked by public-health officials to force a couple to have their four-month-old daughter tested for HIV.
www.fact.on.ca /newpaper/np99090f.htm   (596 words)

  
 Sophie Laplante @ U. of Chicago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sophie Laplante, John Rogers, Indistinguishability, University of Chicago Technical Report TR-96-26.
Lance Fortnow, Sophie Laplante, Extractors for Kolmogorov Complexity, University of Chicago Technical Report TR-96-25.
Gilles Brassard, Claude Crépeau, Sophie Laplante, Christian Léger, Computationally Convincing Proofs of Knowledge Proceedings of STACS 1991.
people.cs.uchicago.edu /~sophie   (161 words)

  
 Carte Blanche
Sophie Brassard: 'This is horrible, my parents are condemned to poison my kids.'
She did not want to give her children the AIDS drug AZT because she believes it is toxic.
Here in South Africa many are clamouring to be given AZT, but in other countries some HIV positive pregnant mothers are so worried about AZT’s toxicity that they refused to give it to their children, resulting in legal action against them.
www.carteblanche.co.za /display/Display.asp?Id=1491   (1833 words)

  
 RootsWeb: GEN-FR-L Re: BRASSARD Families of North America,1841-1935   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
BRASSARD Families of North America,1841-1935 by teddy bear < >
Re: BRASSARD Families of North America,1841-1935 by Donchaput < >
Re: BRASSARD Families of North America,1841-1935 by Roger Hetu < >
archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/GEN-FR/1996-03/0826929075   (51 words)

  
 Eclub Bulletin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
by Marnie Ko One year ago Mother's Day, social workers seized Sophie Brassard's two sons after the Montreal single mom rejected AIDS drugs to treat the elder child's bronchitis.
Deane Collier, the ICMJ's executive director, says the Brassard case demonstrates how the AIDS epidemic has become a multibillion-dollar, highly politicised industry, in which the medical establishment and the courts overrule the right of parents to make medical decisions for their children.
Brassard has been told she has had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) for 15 years, yet she says she has remained in good health without AIDS drugs.
credence.org /Eclub/july14th2000.htm   (6023 words)

  
 Computationally convincing proofs of knowledge (Extended Abstract) (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Abstract: this paper, we give a more general definition, which is capable of taking into account very adversarial behaviour from the prover.
0.3: Subquadratic Zero-Knowledge - Boyar, Brassard, Peralta (1995)
181 Minimum disclosure proofs of knowledge (context) - Brassard, Chaum et al.
citeseer.ifi.unizh.ch /40931.html   (281 words)

  
 Mothering Magazine Article: Safe and Sound Underground
Other women who, like Sophie Brassard, have come up against the medical establishment and lost, might love to be able to have that nightmare, if they could wake up in the company of their children.
Christine Maggiore says, "I don't know how the women I've known who have lost the custody of their children have lived through it.
Centres of the Italian Register for HIV Infection in Children, "Rapid Disease Progression in HIV-1 Perinatally Infected Children Born to Mothers Receiving Zidovudine Monotherapy During Pregnancy," AIDS 13 (1999): 927-933.
www.mothering.com /articles/new_baby/breastfeeding/hiv-underground.html   (4986 words)

  
 Belize encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Belize politics and officials, Belizen History. Travel to Belize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
married (19 June 1999) Sophie Rhys-Jones (born 1965)
Her reference in the Silver Jubilee speech is also believed by some to refer to the disturbances in Northern Ireland at that time.
In 1995, during a separatist referendum campaign, she was tricked into speaking, in both French and English, for fourteen minutes with 29-year-old Pierre Brassard, a DJ for Radio CKOI-FM Montreal, pretending to be then Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
www.belizeiworld.com /wiki-Queen_Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom   (8308 words)

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