Women Senators in Georgia say they're being sidelined

ATLANTA (AP) — A bipartisan group of state senators in Georgia is speaking out about actions they say are undermining women in the chamber.

Several senators on Wednesday protested recent changes to Senate rules that weakened sexual harassment investigations and what they say is a troubling pattern of sideling women with committee assignments.

Republican state Sen. Renee Unterman, who was recently removed as chair of the powerful Senate Health Committee and replaced by a man, said that the Senate was playing "high stakes baseball" and that women were being left out of the game.

"We're not even in the outfield," Unterman said. "As a matter of fact, we're not even in the ballpark. We're outside of the ballpark trying to look over the fence.