The Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina is out with a new TV ad where he and his wife tell viewers that she had an abortion 30 years ago.

In the ad, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his wife talk directly to the camera, revealing few details about the procedure beyond his telling viewers, “Thirty years ago, my wife and I made a very difficult decision. We had an abortion.”

It’s not the first time Robinson has admitted that he paid for his then-girlfriend, now his wife, to have an…