Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
The new scanners they are now using have raised questions because of the type of radiation they use, and the possible risk of not only high prevalence of skin cancer, but corneal cancer. There are other, safer technologies.

Run me through the metal detector, I'm okay with that. Do not subject me to extra radiation when you cannot tell me hat it will do to me 5 or ten years from now. Do not put my vision at risk unnecessarily - and it is unnecessary. Do not think you have license to touch me places I could sue anyone else for touching me.
There is no way I could handle the pat down. Being a rape victim I can;t handle strangers touching me. I will go into a huge panic attack. I don't like the idea of the scan either for similar reasons. Knowing a stranger is looking at my naked body agianst my will would also most likely send me into a panic, though probably not as sever as the pat down. So I would most likely choose the scan. Thank goodness I don't fly often.

But for Doug the radiation is the issue. He was born blind in one eye and has limited vision in the other. He can see with a strong contact lense. There is no way he would agree to the scanner and risk his one good eye.