The Associated Press reports, “A conservative candidate for parliament in Dutch national elections has agreed with remarks by U.S. congressman Todd Akin, who claimed that women have a natural defense mechanism that usually prevents them from becoming pregnant in cases of ‘legitimate rape.'” The head of a small Christian fundamentalist party, Kees van der Staaij opposes abortion of any kind, and said in cases when women are raped, “the chance of pregnancy is very small.”