No. Would you like to have a third of all your fingers severed from the tip down ? Many vets will not even perform the procedure. My wife doesn't do it and many of her friends in the field also refuse to.
Sadly, while anatomically similar, they don't equal the same thing. People throw this debate out on de-dewclawing dogs saying it's like lopping off your thumb.
The truth of the matter is in America outdoor cats are mostly illegal and it's borderline abuse to allow a cat to roam to begin with in most suburban/urban areas due to the short lives they live as a whole (you always hear of the lucky cats that lived 18+ years outdoors...a lot of times that was parent's replacing Lucky over the years with a matching feline).
Almost all the 'outdoor' cats even if indoor as well we saw at the vet's office I worked for, would show tons of BB's in them when X-Rayed (usually because they were coming in from being hit by a car, abused by someone or shot).
Millions of cats are destroyed each year because although they are perfectly adoptable, there are not enough homes. One of the biggest push backs is those worrying about having their furniture and precious items clawed.
Now the non-realist would say don't adopt a cat if you worry about your stuff. That's great, but many cats die because of it.
I have had clawed and de-clawed cats and sadly even with weekly trimming a clawed cat will damage things a lot of the time. Most do learn to stick with their proper scratching places 90% of the time, but that 10% outside that can be costly.
People talk about cats becoming biters, shy, etc...it's simply not true to a well-adjusted cat. The main issue is people throw a cat in to a room or outside and expect it to automatically become a pet. It doesn't, it learns to fear everything and become a wild animal.
So few interact with their cats and most when they do are practically torturing it. Even fewer cats even see a vet each year.
I have been around more cats than most people. I have maintained cat colonies of over 100 cats, was active with
www.10thlife.org (which folded with the economy, about 3000+ cats were there living in peace and in safe shelthers...much research on fatal cat diseases was lost when it closed, the vet I worked for Dr. Salvatore Zeitlin was a big researcher in these things).
Also not all methods of declawing are equal. Some don't even involve removing the claw.
The trick is to find a vet with a successful record of doing declawing.