Smallpox?

[David Honig]

At 06:29 AM 9/27/01 -0000, Dr. Evil wrote:
>> Each of us has the right to weigh for himself the risk of being
>> vaccinated versus the risk of being accidentally or deliberately
>> infected with the allegedly eradicated disease.
>
>Sorry to have to shatter your world, Marc, but, in the US, you have
>absolutely no right to weigh those risks for yourself.  The government
>will make all those types of decisions for you.  What, did you think
>you know what's best for yourself?  That's un-American.  I bet you
>also think that you are responsible for your own safety in general?

Actually, you wave the "religion" flag and you get out, in the US.
This is explicit in e.g., childhood immunization 'laws'.