Journalist and author Ronan Farrow has cut ties with his publisher, Hachette, after the company announced it would publish an autobiography by his father, Woody Allen. Allen has been accused of molesting his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was a child.

On Twitter, Ronan Farrow posted a note reading in part, “I was disappointed to learn through press reports that Hachette, my publisher, acquired Woody Allen’s memoir after other major publishers refused to do so and concealed the decision from me and its own employees while we were working on Catch and Kill—a book about how powerful men, including Woody Allen, avoid accountability for sexual abuse.”

“I’ve encouraged Hachette…to conduct a thorough fact check of Woody Allen’s account, in particular any claim that implies my sister is not telling the truth,” he continued. “I’ve also told Hachette that a publisher that would conduct itself in this way is one I can’t work with in good conscience.”

Farrow’s Catch and Kill, which is nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, is published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette. Allen’s memoir, Apropos of Nothing, is slated for publication by Grand Central Publishing, a Hachette imprint.

The New York Times obtained an email from Farrow to Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch in which the author wrote, “Your policy of editorial independence among your imprints does not relieve you of your moral and professional obligations as the publisher of Catch and Kill, and as the leader of a company being asked to assist in efforts by abusive men to whitewash their crimes.

“Obviously I can’t in good conscience work with you any more,” Farrow wrote. “Imagine this were your sister.”

Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.