Sen. Kamala Harris praised a woman on the campaign trail who shared her abortion story during a NARAL Pro-Choice America stop in Iowa.

“I just, first, I’m in awe of your courage to speak, really, to speak in this venue with all who are here and with such grace to tell your story that is a very personal story and is a story that many women in America can tell," the California Democrat said at a Wednesday campaign stop. "But you have a special ability to have the confidence and the courage to speak it in a room like this, and those truths need to be heard by everyone, so I first just want to thank you for that. I really do."

The woman, an undecided Iowa voter named Katie, said she has been supporting NARAL, a pro-abortion political group, for a decade.

“About 10 years ago, I found myself facing an unplanned pregnancy," she said. “To be totally honest, I’d never really thought too much about reproductive rights, because I never thought I would need them, but I do distinctly remember the moment I found out I was pregnant. I had two immediate thoughts before the denial and all those feelings that come later. I remember thinking, I need to have an abortion, and oh, I live in Iowa.”

“The other thing that has been constant is that Republican lawmakers have been trying to take that power away,” Katie added.

“Let’s also do what we need to do around litigation against these bad laws, but let’s also from a pro-active position, think about how this is a fundamental issue of justice," Harris told the woman. "And in that way, that’s how I think about the role of the United States Department of Justice, which is why I’m saying, in a Harris administration, we will have pre-clearance requirements for any state that infringes on a woman’s access to reproductive healthcare if they have a history of doing that, so that is a new and a different approach."

In May, Harris proposed what she said would be similar to the Voting Rights Act of abortion laws in which the Department of Justice could veto new abortion laws from states which had previous anti-abortion laws overturned by the Supreme Court.

Since the first debate in June, Harris has seen a jump in the polls in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, gaining over 8 points to land in second place at 15%, according to RealClearPolitics.