A friend told me quite recently that while standing in a security line at DEN she noticed a pregnant woman a couple of people in front of her who appeared, along with all the others in line, to be headed sheepishly for the NoS. My friend says (yes, I realize this is hearsay) that she called out to the woman and asked her if she were planning on going through the NoS and exposing her baby to radiation. Friend told woman she could "opt out" and have a pat down instead. Pregnant woman had no idea that she and her baby were going to be exposed to radiation and apparently neither did 3 other people because 4 travelers, in addition to my friend, opted out of NoS at the same time.

Friend said pat down was nothing to write home about, perhaps because there were 5 people to be patted down and the screeners wanted to get it over with fast. She didn't mention if their bags were rifled or if the screeners' gloves were ETD'd after the pat downs. I'll try to remember to ask her.