Jenny Hakes is not an artist, but about a year ago, she put felt-tip markers to poster board and set down her thoughts in wobbly letters.
The mother of five carries that sign — “Pray to end abortion” — every Saturday morning on the sidewalk in front of the Madison Surgery Center, 1 S. Park St.
Since news leaked one year ago that UW Hospital, its doctor group and Meriter Hospital were proposing to add abortion procedures to the surgery center, which they jointly own, opponents have kept up a near-daily presence at the site and begun measures intended to hurt the hospitals financially.