JoAnne, Do you know that some vet practices bundle  declaw with neuter as a single package offered to clients when clients ask about neutering.  Many clients trust their vets and assume that declaw is  recommend by their vets as a routinely needed and not a mutating 
procedure for their cats.  Declaw survery is money making machine for vet practices and have almost never ever a medically needed procedures for the cats.  The question is "Should the declaw procedure perform for the financial benefit of vets and/or for owners' furniture at the cost of animal cruelty and suffering?"  If the answer is no, this animal cruelty practice needs to be stopped.