Helen Keller would shit in her pants

You read the headline correctly. This public health would have made the original American idol furious enough to protest by releasing her next most convenient BM into a pair of her own pants, just so she could have something more pleasant to occupy her mind.

Here's the story (1 in 5 parents refuse daughters' cervical cancer jab):

British folk who declined their daughter's HPV vaccine were worried about A) lack of long-term data, B) promiscuity - being immune to a virus that infects 80% of all people means you will have sex with those 80% of mankind, and C) "religious reasons."

The author, Sarah Boseley, looks then at a different angle: "Uptake ... lower in schools with a high proportion of girls from ethnic minority groups and those entitled to free school meals."

So society has officially succeeded in getting the poor and the non-white to dig their own graves with respect to their own health and - less obviously - personal finances. Here we have a free government-sponsored program and only the rich and white are taking it up in numbers. Will cervical cancer become stigmatized as the lower class woman's disease?

It's a well documented, though less well known fact that Helen Keller embraced several unpopular political causes. One was radical socialism, and it was because of classist health problems like her own blindness that she had the courage to look squarely at the issue.