Tory MP David Anderson is really mad at Health Canada for approving the use of the abortion pill RU-486, otherwise known as mifepirstone.

Anderson issued a press release “strongly” condemning Health Canada’s decision to approve the use of mifepristone (RU-486) as an abortion drug, Thursday afternoon.

“This chemical drug cocktail carries a high risk of complication,” Anderson said in the release.

“It is not only lethal to preborn infants, but is associated with 19 adult deaths in 11 years. While RU-486 is promoted as a safe and effective abortifacient, it is neither. It is a dangerous combination of drugs that destroys a woman’s tissues in the womb in order to kill her preborn child. As uterine tissue is chemically degraded, the child dies,” he said.

While Stephen Harper’s government has largely kept a lid on the abortion debate, the “pro-life caucus,” as Anderson has described it, has been able to force the issue into the headlines from time to time.

Wednesday’s news that Health Canada had approved the drug was wellcomed by pro-choice advocates. Anderson, in contrast, warned that there have been 19 adults deaths in 11 years connected to the drug. While he did not cite a source, it is possible given the drug’s use in many other countries.

The pill was first approved in France and China in 1988 and is available in more than 57 countries throughout the world.

It is included in the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines. The most common Canadian regimen of medical abortion prescribed has been a combination of methotrexate and misoprostol, which were prescribed “off-label” for medical abortion. After Australia, Canada is the second country to approve a combination package including both drugs.

According to its manufacturer, Linepharma International Limited, the pill will be distributed by Celopharma Inc. with commercial availability expected in January 2016.

Unless Anderson has anything to do with it.

“I am extremely disappointed that Health Canada would see this as acceptable to Canadians,” continued his statement.

“This decision is wrong on many levels. The issues around this deadly drug combination will continue to be highlighted until it is recognized by Health Canada to be unfit for Canadians,” Anderson said, then pointing a finger at scientists, “Health Canada scientists have failed Canadian women and children by making this decision.”

“This drug requires direct medical supervision, physician contact, and access to emergency medical care. Even with these requirements, use of it has resulted in complications, long term health issues, and death. Health Canada needs to reconsider and reverse the decision to approve this unsafe drug,” concluded Anderson’s release.

Anderson’s not the only one upset with Health Canada. Campaign Life Coalition also issued a statement and said alongside other pro-life groups its launched petitions against approval of the abortion drug, and says Canada doesn’t need to make it “make abortion access easier.”

“RU-486 is a human pesticide which kills the pre-born child and harms women,” said Campaign Life Coalitions national president Jim Hughes. In its release, the pro-life group says its calling on the government, Health Minister Rona Ambrose and Prime Minister Stephen Harper to stop the distribution of the drug.

“Canada must begin to protect children in the womb and offer their mothers true help not a dead baby,” it concluded.