https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape_laws_by_country

France Explicitly criminalised The law criminalises rape, including spousal rape, and domestic violence, and the government generally enforced the law effectively. The Court of Cassation authorized prosecution of spouses for rape or sexual assault in 1990. In 1994, Law 94-89 criminalised marital rape; a second law, passed 4 April 2006, makes rape by a partner an aggravating circumstance in prosecuting rape. (Article 222-24(11) of the Criminal Code)

I figure the crux of an argument would more likely rest on defining consent, which is where there’s always progress to be made.

Also there was a massive trial that ended just recently about the mass rapes of a wife who was drugged to sleep by her husband and offered to people for years without her knowledge. Of the 50 guys including the husband, most of them got prison I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapes_of_Gisèle_Pelicot

All over the news for months here and it made some degree of International noise, at least in Europe. Dunno about the US.

Edit to your edit - “not true anymore” is an understatement, it hasn’t been true for 30 to 35 years.

Because you’re calling that statistic a Nazi dog whistle, and that means you’re saying it’s fake / fabricated and pro-Nazi propaganda somehow. It may not be what you intended, but it is the meaning of the phrasing you used.