I agree with what you posted, except about the early teens part.
Humans up until just recently always had their kids in the teenage years, our bodies are far more flexible and capable of it then.
A sixteen or seventeen year old woman is far more likely to have a safer pregnancy than a 35 year old is.
That's not what the article is talking about. According to the article blacks have a 400% higher mortality rate. On average they're having their babies younger, not older. In the inner cities they also have a 50% rate of herpes, chlamydia and other STDs.
Taking the same data Amnesty wants to blame the health care system and not the lack of personal responsibility. Freeper guys want to blame white women who have their first after the age of 40.
The age of 16 or 17 is fine, but many of these girls have their first baby at 13 or 14, which is a little early (and is one of the causes of death in Third World Countries, too).
Yes ... and no.
"A" 16-17 y/o is generally much healthier and more flexible than a 35y/o, so she should be better able to handle childbirth. However, the 16-17 y/o girls who have babies at that age in the US today are often in poor health, on drugs, receiving little or no prenatal care, and have multiple other risk factors.