It is illegal to use or prescribe birth control.

The Law

Under the infamous 1879 Comstock Act, Connecticut explicitly outlawed the use of any drug or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception. This law was so strictly enforced that clinics were raided and doctors were arrested for providing condoms to married couples. The bizarre and invasive law was finally struck down by the Supreme Court in the landmark 1965 case Griswold v. Connecticut.