JEFFERSON CITY -- Former Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee says abortion on demand has desensitized an entire generation of Americans to the value of life.

Monday, Huckabee brought his anti-abortion message to a fund raising luncheon for the Jefferson City-based Vitae Caring Foundation.

Fourteen months ago, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee came to Jefferson City in an effort to get elected president.

"Missouri is a natural perfect fit for me, unlike it is for anybody else on the republican ticket," said Huckabee.

In the months since that unsuccessful campaign, Huckabee has become a talk show host for the Fox Network, and a sought-after speaker for conservative values. The Vitae Caring Foundation uses advertising to reach out to young pregnant women thinking about abortion. It has transcended the politic winds that decide who goes to the Whitehouse.

"Politicians come and go,” said Vitae President Carl Landwehr. “And if you rest all your hope on a politician, you too will come and go."

Vitae claims some credit for a 30 percent reduction in the number of abortions in Missouri over the past 15 years. Vitae funds now target places like New York, where 91,000 abortions occur each year.

"There are no waiting periods,” said Christopher Slattery of Frontline Pregnancy Centers of New York. “There are no parental notification or consent clauses. There's no mandatory counseling, no mandatory ultrasound."

Huckabee says organizations like Vitae can change a culture, which he believes has traded values for convenience.

“If we say that it's okay to take a life because it represents economic or social inconvenience,” said Huckabee, “That generation to whom we've given that message will, one day, be the caretakers of my generation. When my children are looking after me and I become an economic interruption to their lives, haven't we already told them that it's okay to terminate me ...because I represent at the end of life what that unborn child represented at the beginning of life."

Some 400 people registered to attend Monday's luncheon. Another 1,000 signed up to attend a dinner featuring Huckabee Monday evening.

Organizers hope the events will raise $400,000 in contributions for Vitae ads, which now target social networking Web sites like Myspace and Facebook.