'Pro-Life Spider-Man' scales New York Times building in Manhattan

‘Pro-Life Spider Man’ escapes jail AGAIN when NYPD fails to arrest him for scaling 52-story New York Times building – just one day after he was RELEASED by San Fran cops for climbing 76-story Salesforce Tower

  • Maison DesChamps, 22, had someone with him to record video as he climbed the 721-foot building on 8th Avenue and West 40th around 5 a.m. Thursday 
  • DesChamps hung a sign on the building’s sixth and seventh floors that read ‘ABORTION KILLS MORE THAN 911 EVERY WEEK!’ 
  • He then hung a second banner with an image of a fetus that called out a specific doctor he accuses of ‘killing this baby’ 
  • Police in New York said that they were made aware of the two banners but DesChamps does not appear to have been arrested 
  • ‘While we fully support an individual’s right to express their point of view, this was an unlawful and dangerous act,’ Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said 

A man calling himself ‘Pro-Life Spider-Man’ had his latest conquest at the 52-story New York Times building in Manhattan just days after being arrested for scaling a building in San Francisco and says he’s been encouraged by the draft leaking of the Supreme Court’s potential overturn of Roe vs. Wade. 

Maison DesChamps, 22, had someone with him to record video as he climbed the 721-foot building on Eighth Avenue and West 40th around 5 a.m. Thursday. 

DesChamps hung a sign on the building’s sixth and seventh floors that read ‘ABORTION KILLS MORE THAN 911 EVERY WEEK!’

He then hung a second banner with an image of a fetus that called out a specific doctor he accuses of ‘killing this baby.’  

Police in New York said that they were made aware of the two banners but DesChamps does not appear to have been arrested.  

A man calling himself ‘Pro-Life Spider-Man’ – 22-year-old Maison DesChamps – had his latest conquest at the 52-story New York Times building in Manhattan and says he’s been encouraged by the draft leaking of the Supreme Court’s potential overturn of Roe vs. Wade

DesChamps, 22, had someone with him to record video as he climbed the 721-foot building on 8th Avenue and West 40th around 5 a.m. Thursday

DesChamps hung a sign on the building’s sixth and seventh floors that read ‘ABORTION KILLS MORE THAN 911 EVERY WEEK!’

He then hung a second banner with an image of a fetus that called out a specific doctor he accuses of ‘killing this baby.’

‘Hey Instagram, I put up my banners,’ DesChamps said in one Instagram clip. ‘No one seems to be home this early, but they’re gonna like my banner, I’ll tell you that.’

‘I am pretty high up, about halfway, I’d say, maybe, I don’t know,’ he added. ‘But damn, I think I’m gonna make it up to the boss level before they figure out I’m up here. No one’s seen me yet. Kind of cool.

He claimed that once he reached his peak, he went inside and climbed his way down several flights of stairs.  

‘It’s a lot easier when they let you down the elevator, let me tell you,’ he said . ‘The stairs thing is hard. I’m tired.’

‘I’m gonna be pissed if I run down all these stairs and they’re waiting for me at the bottom,’ he added. ‘It’s gonna suck.’

The Times criticized DesChamps for his efforts in a statement on Thursday.

‘While we fully support an individual’s right to express their point of view, this was an unlawful and dangerous act,’ Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said.

This has become a regular act for DesChamps, a senior at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. 

DesChamps just two days ago climbed San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower, California’s tallest skyscraper at 61 stories and 1,070 feet. 

Madison DesChamps, 22, climbed up the entirety of the Salesforce tower without a harness in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe vs Wade on Tuesday morning


DesChamps filmed himself on Instagram climbing up all 61 stories, in which he says in one video: ‘Everything’s going good, I just wish I had more water’

Office workers from inside the tower filmed DesChamps climbing up their floor levels as he appeared to be without a harness

The San Francisco Police Department told people to avoid the area around the tower while DesChamps was ascending the building with little effort

He took a little less than two hours to climb the building’s 61 floors after witnesses started observing him at around 9:30 a.m. Pictured: DesChamps reaching the top of the Salesforce tower

Officers placed DesChamps in custody once he climbed all 61 floors to reach the tower’s roof. He appeared to only be wearing a hoodie, as several office workers inside the tower recorded footage of the climber reaching their floors without any climbing gear. 

DesChamps is an experienced rock climber, according to his website, which also reveals that he wanted to climb the tower to ‘put a doctor behind bars,’ as well as raise at least a million dollars for charities advocating for women who are pro-life.

He said the leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade gave him extra motivation. 

‘These doctors are literally killing these babies on the table and leaving them out to die,’ he said. ‘We’re not trying to yell at women who want to have an abortion, we don’t want to blame them…we just want to let them know there are other options.’ 

It’s not known how much money DesChamps was able to raise or if he reached his million dollar goal. 

‘I am a rock climber that has recently started climbing Skyscrapers to end abortion,’ his website – www.prolifespiderman.com – says. 

The Times building has been an attractive nuisance for climbers because the ceramic rods on the building are spaced closely together. 

Climbers protesting global warming, Al Qaeda and other causes have scaled the building in the past, leading to some of the rods being removed. However, people have still climbed the building in recent years. 

WHAT IS ROE V. WADE?

The Roe v. Wade decision nearly 50 years ago recognized that the right to personal privacy under the US Constitution protects a woman’s ability to terminate her pregnancy.

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decided that the constitutional right to privacy applied to abortion.

Roe was ‘Jane Roe,’ a pseudonym for Norma McCorvey, a single mother pregnant for the third time, who wanted an abortion.

She sued the Dallas attorney general Henry Wade over a Texas law that made it a crime to terminate a pregnancy except in cases of rape or incest, or when the mother’s life was in danger.

Roe’s lawyers said she was unable to travel out of the state to obtain an abortion and argued that the law was too vague and infringed on her constitutional rights.

Filing a complaint alongside her was Texas doctor James Hallford, who argued the law’s medical provision was vague, and that he was unable to reliably determine which of his patients fell into the allowed category.

The ‘Does’, another couple who were childless, also filed a companion complaint, saying that medical risks made it unsafe but not life-threatening for the wife to carry a pregnancy to term, and arguing they should be able to obtain a safe, legal abortion should she become pregnant.

The trio of complaints – from a woman who wanted an abortion, a doctor who wanted to perform them and a non-pregnant woman who wanted the right if the need arose – ultimately reached the nation’s top court.

The court heard arguments twice, and then waited until after Republican president Richard Nixon’s re-election, in November 1972.

Only the following January did it offer its historic seven-to-two decision – overturning the Texas laws and setting a legal precedent that has had ramifications in all 50 states.

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