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Buddhism encompasses in it various notions such as Buddha (historic and otherwise), Karma (law of cause and effect and otherwise), rebirth (reincarnation of the mind continuum and otherwise) which are understood by different Buddhists in different ways. We could go on forever and get many different "Buddhist" reasonings for being born with a birth defect.

The fact is however that Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths and the first truth was not that life was suffering, as I have read here, but that Samsara was suffering, where Samsara is held to mean the cycle of life and death and that there are causes of suffering, a cessation of these causes and the path to their cessation. Indeed it is only by following the eightfold noble path to the cessation of all suffering that we become liberated from the cycle of life and death called Samsara and thus avoid being born with birth defects. For surely in some lifetime or another in the past or future we all have been born in Samsara with birth defects to a lesser and greater degree and this is because we have not yet been liberated from Samsara.