This is not the US Government. This is “each state individually” for the citizens of their own state. So it’s 50 different states, with 50 different legislatures, at different time periods for each state, with each state having its own voting public for voting in their own legislators - and they ALL come up with the same type of laws regarding this kind of rape.
Now, you may not like the laws that each of those 50 different states enacted, each in their own jurisdictions, but they are laws that are followed, or one gets arrested, tried, convicted and jailed - no matter your view on all those different laws.
You are right. I erred in saying it was the FedGov, but I couldn’t edit.
Just to be clear: Many people here keep saying what the law is. My take, which I started articulating in 1981 is, “What is legal is not necessarily moral, and what is moral is not necessarily legal.”
i.e. whether or not it’s legal is not what I’m addressing. The law is the law, crazy, sane, or other. It is black and white. We hope.