Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican senator who has long questioned the safety of the scanners that use so-called backscatter technology to detect objects hidden under passengers' clothes.
Collins said she was motivated to introduce the bill by the daughter of a constituent who had a miscarriage after undergoing an airport security screening.
"We will never know for certain the cause of this family’s loss," Collins said in a statement. "But they believe in their hearts the backscatter is to blame."…
In statements to congressional panels over the last few months, Pistole has changed his position several times on whether further tests are needed. Most recently, he said he is open to another independent study.MORE
Maybe she was flying to an abortion clinic.