Another liberal activist judge aborts the 10th Amendment.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked implementation of a new Kansas law that would strip federal family planning funding from the state’s Planned Parenthood chapter, dealing Republican lawmakers their second major legal setback to their recent moves against abortion providers.

U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten ordered the state to immediately resume funding for Planned Parenthood, agreeing with Planned Parenthood that without the injunction the group would suffer irreparable harm while its challenge to the law works its way through the courts.

Planned Parenthood said it would be forced to close its clinic in the western Kansas city of Hays unless the court immediately prohibited the state from stripping it of $330,000 in federal Title X annual funding. It contended that its 5,700 patients would also face higher costs and have less access to services and longer wait or travel times for appointments.

The group is suing to block a budget provision that requires federal family planning dollars granted to the state by the federal government to go first to public health departments and hospitals. It leaves no money for Planned Parenthood and similar groups.