You should at least educate her. I had absolutley no idea about declawing until about 3 or 4 years ago. Luckily, growing up, my mom was to cheap to bother declawing our cats. But if I'd gotten a house cat a few years ago, I would have declawed it. You should give her this article (and there are many others)http://www.petstation.com/declaw.html. Just tell her that it is her decision, but you want her to be sure that she knows what she is doing first.