On July 8, women in North Carolina were alerted to this posting on Facebook. The group is called “Need Your Permission – NC”. There are other states with similar pages:

Bethany Erickson created this event in Texas and we're taking it across the country!
 Women in North Carolina unite and tell your Governor and Lt. Gov that if they want to make decisions about my uterus and my reproductive life, they get to make all the decisions about my life. You don't get to cherry pick. If they want to control our bodies, let's try to give them our need for decisions for one month. We will call/tweet/email/FB (or all four) every time we need to make a choice. Up do or hair down? Toast or cereal? The tollway or the freeway to work? Brown bag or buy lunch? What should we eat for lunch? And so on. Try to work in the word choice, too." Ex: "Choices are hard because I'm a woman! Can the governor tell me if I should have soup or salad?"
 Let's inundate their phones and inboxes with choices. Let's annoy them and their staff for a MONTH. If you are male, feel free to call on behalf of any feeble woman you know.

Women in North Carolina took on this challenge, at least for most of the month, and some posted their letters back to the facebook page to inspire others to write. Two friends who posted their letters to Gov. Pat McCrory are Debbie Leonard of Thomasville, and Nancy Mamlin of Durham. In this blog I will present the letters we wrote, from July 8 – July 31, 2013.