Indian students hold placards as they take an oath vowing to eliminate the practice of aborting female fetuses in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. In India, daughters are often seen as a burden because tradition requires that a bride’s family pay the groom’s family a large dowry of cash and gifts. Women’s education is often neglected, and many do not get adequate medical treatment. <AP/NEWSis/Rafiq Maqbool>
