More than 50 members of Congress have teamed up with a pro-life group asking for a probe of Planned Parenthood's dealing with underage girls seeking abortions.

Live Action, a pro-life group based just across the Potomac River from Capitol Hill, this week has been releasing a series of undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood employees helping minors get abortions without fulfilling the legal obligation of reporting it to authorities – and facilitating human traffickers in providing abortions to minors sold in sexual slavery.

During a press conference yesterday in Washington, DC, Congresswoman Diane Black (R-Tennessee) said she wants to know why – when the undercover videos span a decade – there's been no definitive action.

"It's come to light that Planned Parenthood performs abortions on girls as young as 12 years old and then sends them right back into the arms of their abusers without alerting the authorities. It is shameful," said the conservative lawmaker.

Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) is married to a nurse practitioner who deals with minors in hospital emergency rooms who have been molested.

"[She says] they do ask the questions – which makes me ask the question: Are these lives not important to Planned Parenthood? Or is the greater abortion industry more important than protecting these young innocent lives?" King asked. "This is a travesty of magnanimous proportion."

King questioned whether Planned Parenthood should get a pass for not reporting child sexual abuse to authorities.

Prior to the press conference, former Colorado Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, who is now with Susan B. Anthony List, described abortion as "a gift to pimps, traffickers, and abuser."

"And Planned Parenthood," she continued, "has helped them cover their tracks while raking in more than half a billion dollars from taxpayers every year .... That's why further action is needed to disentangle taxpayers from the scandal-ridden abortion business."

Live Action and dozens of members of Congress have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services asking for an investigation of the abortion conglomerate – and for the agency to implement President Trump's request to deny the organization up to $60 million in Title X funds.