The UK Government has confirmed that abortion will be devolved to the Scottish Parliament. The decision has been welcomed by one of Scotland's leading Christian charities who have called for the issue to be debated for the first time in Holyrood. CARE for Scotland said, ‘It makes plain constitutional sense for this new power to be given to Holyrood so that the Parliament here has power over start of life issues as well. The transfer of such a major new power clearly merits a full parliamentary debate and MSPs should take advantage of this opportunity as soon as possible.’ Scottish Secretary David Mundell said that people felt very strongly about the issue and the Government understood that. ‘We will bring forward an amendment to the Scotland Bill so that abortion law can be devolved to the Scottish Parliament,’ he told the Scottish Affairs Committee in Westminster.