Meet the young 'Pro-Life Spiderman' who climbs skyscrapers to help the unborn
Summary
Pro-Life Spiderman, Mason Deschamps, has been climbing skyscrapers to protest Roe v. Wade and the abortion industry. He says he's not afraid of the police to get the message he's trying to get across.
Transcript
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Many of you might have seen over the past number of months a young man climbing on the side of
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buildings. Usually the police are on top, but this is actually a pro-life Spider-Man. He's unfurled
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pro-life posters. He's climbed up places, high buildings, where there are abortionists working.
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It's very interesting and very scary. He does this without equipment. Stay tuned to meet
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the pro-life Spider-Man, Mason Deschamps. This is the John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.
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The name pro-life Spider-Man, climbing skyscrapers to end abortion.
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He says he's climbing skyscrapers with a message. Stop abortions.
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This year, our 25th anniversary of providing you with news and truthful information. If you could
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please consider coming to join us for our celebration in Naples, Florida, on August 17th,
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that would be just awesome. Go to gala25.lifesitenews.com for more information.
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Let's begin, as you always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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Amen. So, sir, you have gotten the attention of a lot of places all of a sudden.
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Yeah, so I started climbing skyscrapers last August.
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And the first one I did was to protest COVID mandates, but my original plan was to always
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climb for pro-life and pro-life charities because I feel like it's something that's,
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you get so much criticism when you stand up for pro-life. There's just so much backlash
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that it needed to happen. And I was sort of glad that I climbed that first one because I learned a
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little bit about marketing and like how to get my story out there. Because it's a lot harder than
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just climbing a building. You have to have people on your side who are sending messages to all sorts
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of places and getting the story out. But I wanted to climb another one after the aria in August.
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And what finally made me decide that like now's the time is I heard the news about Dr.
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Cesar Santangelo in Washington, D.C. And he had, they found five like aborted, almost full-grown
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babies. And which is illegal in D.C. But the police, rather than arresting Dr. Cesar Santangelo,
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they arrested the activists to obtain the babies. And so I just saw the corruption in that and said,
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you know, now is the time, if any time, to do something about it. And it just so happened,
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like I had bought the tickets to fly to San Francisco and climb the Salesforce a month in advance.
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And the morning I did it happened to be the morning of the Roe v. Wade leak. So it was divine timing.
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Amazing. Okay, so a number of things. You're climbing these buildings without really equipment.
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No, like you're not attached to a rope anywhere. How are you doing that? What's your background for
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climbing? Yeah, so this style of climbing is called free solo climbing. And
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how I get up the building is I just climb with my hands and feet. I grab the like window sills
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that stick out or the panels, the decorative panels that stick out. But I have a background
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in rock climbing. I've been climbing for about like five years now. And I've lived in Yosemite
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National Park and in Las Vegas, where we have Red Rock Canyon. And so I have a lot of experience
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climbing on rock. And it's hard to convey to people who don't rock climb that, you know,
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climbing skyscrapers is actually a lot easier than climbing rock. But like on rock, we grip holds
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the size of credit cards. But on skyscrapers, I'm able to get my hands like all the way around these
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panels. So I feel really secure and safe. And even if I were to slip, I'm not going to fall,
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I'm going to catch myself, you know, like stick another hand on there really quick. And so I feel
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really secure as I'm doing it. Okay, amazing. So part of your work, if you want to call it that,
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is you get arrested. You were describing in one video, in fact, we're going to look at that clip
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right now. You looking through a window and seeing police officers waving at you. Let's look at what
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she said on that video. Today's action comes hours after a preliminary decision was leaked
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that the Supreme Court could strike down the landmark Roe versus Wade decision. San Francisco
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police officers arrested the champs immediately when he made it to the top. The charges you can
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be facing are trespassing. So you're confronting police officers and you know, you're going to get
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arrested. A, what's the feeling like? And B, what happens to you when you're arrested?
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Yeah. So like, before I climb these buildings, I'm not really nervous about the climbing. I'm always
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nervous about the security and the police. Like before I started this, I'd never been arrested
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before in my life. And so I'm always really nervous about it. But usually what happens is I get to the
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top and the police officers are very nice to me. They're usually just really impressed. And it kind of
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makes their day, you know, you don't, it's not every day that you see somebody climb a building. So,
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and what I do is different from like a Spider-Man, Dan Goodwin, because he takes like eight hours to
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climb these things. And I'm, I'm pretty quick. I climb them all within like an hour. And so I try
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not to use up their resources just as much as possible. But yeah, you know, there's, it's not
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actually illegal to do what I'm doing. I'm getting charged with trespassing. And it's one of those
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things like the police don't know how to charge me. They look at what I've done and they say, well,
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I'm pretty sure this has got to be illegal. And so they hit me with charges. And luckily I have good
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lawyers. We're just going to get it all thrown away. But it's, it's definitely something I wish I
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could avoid if it was ever possible. But the best thing to do is whenever you're in a police
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confrontation, it's just listen to them, let them do their thing and worry about it later.
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Okay. So what's your main message? What message did you unfurl in one of the buildings where you did
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it? Yeah. So, you know, I'm climbing to raise money for pro-life charities and raise awareness. I
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guess it's multifaceted, right? And recently, and from, from the beginning, I was raising money for
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this charity. They're called let them live. But recently I've partnered with them, which has been
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an awesome experience. But what they do is they try to provide financial assistance, whether that's
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housing or medical care or anything that women really needs. But on top of that, they offer job
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services and counseling so that after the baby's born, the mom can provide a fruitful life for her child.
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And I think doing what let them live is doing is very important, because it very well might be that
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this week Roe v. Wade comes to an end, and a lot of states are going to ban abortion. But even so,
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these women, they can still fly to California, they can still fly to New York and get these extremely
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late term abortions. And odds are, now that it's banned in those states, there's going to be some
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bureaucracy they have to go through. And so most abortions that are going to be happening are going
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to be extremely late term abortions. And so I think offering the alternative that let them live
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has been doing, I think it's just something that we as pro-lifers need to stand up and support.
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So that's, that's, that's been my goals to really just raise money for, for these organizations.
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Great. What gave you such strong pro-life convictions? You're sort of giving a good
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part of your life to this now. What's, what's motivating you there? And how did you come to
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your beliefs? Yeah, you know, I was raised Catholic. And so I've always been around the pro-life
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view. In high school, I moved to California. And so you hear both sides. And I heard the one side
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that says, you know, it's fine, don't worry about it. It's like popping a zit. And then I heard the
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other side that said, no, like, life is beautiful, we need to protect it. And, you know, even if it
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wasn't murder, you don't know that, like, you're just you're coming up to your own assumption.
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Like, and so I just think the arguments on the pro-life side are way more powerful, and way more
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logical than the arguments that these pro-life are these, excuse me, pro-choice people are making.
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I mean, these pro-choice people are, they're making devilish arguments. They, they, they stand
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against families, they're, they're against motherhood, and they're against life in general.
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They, they have this fear of overpopulation, and they have this fear of, of children. And I think
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we need to stand up and protect, protect these babies.
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Mason, where can people learn more about you, what you're doing and stay in touch with you?
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Yeah, so if, if you want to learn more about me or donate to Let Them Live, you can go to
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ProLifeSpiderMan.com. It's pretty easy to remember. ProLifeSpiderMan.com. If you want to follow me on
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Instagram and, and find updates and, and things of that nature, my Instagram is at ProLife.SpiderMan.
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That is awesome. Mason Deschamps, thank you so much for being with us on this episode of the
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John Henry Weston Show. Thank you so much for having me on. God bless you. God bless you.
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And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.